And this is certainly true with evaluation! Have a look at this flow diagram of the steps involved in developing and undertaking Monitoring and Evaluation for a project or program. Each of these steps are critical to fulfilling your MER needs.
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The A-Z of survey contact lists
When you are planning an evaluation – or from our perspective running an evaluation – surveys more often than not are used as data collection tools. One of the first things to consider is that there is a list of relevant contacts to work from for the completion of the required surveys or interviews. One
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Spreading the good news
Recently QualDATA was preparing a report for a client by drawing together all the data to ensure that their ‘great work’ could be demonstrated and clearly identify any changes needed. Our job was to look at the impact or change in attitudes and practice of the target audiences.
Choosing the right data collection method
One of the big issues in evaluation is choosing the right method to collect the data that you have identified is needed. Too often, someone will say…’we want to do an evaluation – we will do a survey’. This is a case of being method focused rather than focusing on the information need itself. The
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TIPS – Managing Event and Activity Feedback
Getting the most out of Event and Activity Feedback is a simple way of gathering data that many of us neglect. We all run meetings, workshops, seminars, field days, internal staff meetings on key issues, planning meetings, briefings and more. These are all ‘events’ that are contributing to the Key Result Areas (KRAs) of the
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