The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is a systematic and participatory approach for project design and planning. By following the LFA, projects will also document information that will help inform their monitoring and evaluation. The LFA is like a diagnostic tool that helps you understand why things are happening. It helps uncover what the core problem […]
There are many other useful websites and resources exploring the themes of evaluation and behaviour change. We have listed a short summary of some that we hope you will find useful.
Outcome Hierarchy (OH) is an often-used process in project design as a way to clarify the program logic. As an evaluation tool, OH can be used to identify what capacity that has been created by the project. The information provided can be used for formative evaluation for future project design, as well as outcome evaluative,
Storytelling provides a powerful means to obtain information on a project’s outcomes from participants’ experiences and viewpoints. Storytelling provides meaningful information that can highlight both the strong points and weaknesses of a project, as well as any unintended consequences. In a way, by asking participants to provide a story on a project, it asks them
Deemed savings refers to using equations or factors to calculate resource consumption savings from a range of actions. The calculations are developed from a set of assumptions that should reflect an average scenario for the action or behaviour. Ecological and carbon footprint calculators use deemed savings to calculate changes to footprints. The Victorian Government Black
Questionnaires are one of the most common and popular tools to gather data from a large number of people. A good questionnaire can be a powerful tool to inform your evaluation, and a poorly designed questionnaire can make life difficult for both those that have to complete it, and those that have to analyse the
A stakeholder analysis provides a means to identify the relevant stakeholders and assess their views and support for the proposed project. A stakeholder can be defined as any individuals, groups of people, institutions or organisations that may have a significant interest in the success or failure of a potential project around the issue of concern.
Case studies are an excellent way of to learn from the real experience of other projects and see how they have applied evaluation tools in real life. What worked, what didn’t, how did you do it, what would you do differently next time? During the development of the toolbox we collected some case studies to
What tools should you use to collect monitoring data for your project? It all depends. Unfortunately there is no magical rule or formula to follow, however once we know what data we need to collect to answer our evaluation questions, some logical choices present themselves. When should I select the monitoring tools for my project?
Source: Goodman (2006) Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes Does this situation look familiar to you? We’ve all been in the situation where we are sitting through a slide show presentation and our eyes are getting heavy and we’ve completely lost interest. The BIG question is have you been guilty of the same crime?
