This toolkit is designed to provide our grantees with guidance as they undertake evaluating and learning from their work. It is targeted primarily at those grantees who will be working with an external evaluator or conducting their own rigorous internal evaluations, but we believe anyone who is seeking to design a useful evaluation can benefit from it.
The tools and approaches in this toolkit are based on our mission and evaluation philosophy and built upon our Evaluation Handbook. The toolkit has seven sections (the links to these sections are located in the left hand column and are available on every page of the toolkit):
- Where to start: Describes some of the first issues to address in beginning an evaluation.
- Evaluation approaches: Gives some detail on different approaches to evaluation and how they are related to hiring an evaluator and designing the evaluation.
- Evaluation questions: Gives suggestions on developing the questions that will guide the evaluation work.
- Evaluation plan: Provides details on the major components of an evaluation plan, including data collection and analysis, reporting, and assuring use of findings.
- Budgeting: Shows how to create an initial evaluation budget.
- Hiring and managing evaluators: Suggests things to consider in selecting and managing the best evaluator for your project.
- Additional resources: Links to useful on-line resources on evaluation.
