Evaluate Actions
Ongoing evaluation of your efforts helps you know if what you’re doing is working the way you intended and achieving the results you desire.
Purpose
Discover whether strategies are working as intended in order to focus efforts efficiently and effectively.
Key Activities
- Prepare to Evaluate
- Build Consensus Around an Evaluation Plan
- Decide What Goals are Most Important to Evaluate
- Determine Your Evaluation Question(s)
- Identify Indicators and How to Collect Data
- Identify Benchmarks for Success
- Establish Data Collection and Analysis Systems
- Collect Credible Data
- Review Evaluation Results and Adjust Your Policy Implementation or Program(s)
- Share Your Evaluation Results
- Evaluate Your Partnership and Make Changes
Our Top Tools
These are our favorite tools for this step. You can find additional relevant tools in each key activity as well.
- After Action Review Center for Creative Leadership
- Evaluation Plan Template CHR&R
- Gathering and Using Community-Level Indicators Community Tool Box
- Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests Checklist Community Tool Box
- Use the Data CHR&R