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6. EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION
Effectiveness evaluation assesses the quality and significance of outcom es. Evaluator Activities
ClientStakeholder Activities— AssessingReporting Outcomes
G Interview key stakeholders, such as com m unity leaders, beneficiaries, program leaders and staff, and other interested
parties, to determ ine their assessm ents of the program ’s positive and negative outcom es.
Q Use effectiveness evaluation findings to gauge the program ’s positive and negative effects on beneficiaries.
Q Use the effectiveness evaluation findings to gauge the program ’s positive and negative effects on the com m unitypertinent
environm ent. G Conduct in-depth case studies of selected beneficiaries.
Q Use the effectiveness evaluation findings to sort out and judge im portant side effects.
G Engage an evaluation team m em ber and program staff to supply docum entation needed to identify and confirm the range, depth,
quality, and significance of the program ’s effects on beneficiaries. Q Use the effectiveness evaluation findings to exam ine whether
program plans and activities need to be changed. G Engage an evaluation team m em ber to com pile and assess
inform ation on the program ’s effects on the com m unity. Q Use the effectiveness evaluation findings to prepare and issue
program accountability reports. G Engage a goal-free evaluator to ascertain what the program
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actually did and to identify its full range of effects—positive and negative, intended and unintended.
Q Use the effectiveness evaluation findings to m ake a bottom -line assessm ent of the program ’s success.
Q Obtain inform ation on the nature, cost, and success of sim ilar program s conducted elsewhere and judge the subject program ’s
effectiveness in contrast to the identified “critical com petitors.” Q Use needs assessm ent data from the context evaluation findings,
effectiveness evaluation findings, and contrasts with sim ilar program s elsewhere to m ake a bottom -line assessm ent of the
program ’s significance. Q Com pile effectiveness evaluation findings in a draft report that m ay
be incorporated in a larger report and present it to the client and agreed-upon stakeholders.
Q Discuss effectiveness evaluation findings in a feedback workshop. Q Finalize the effectiveness evaluation report and present it to the
client and agreed-upon stakeholders. Q QIncorporate the effectiveness evaluation findings in an updated
program profile and ultim ately in the final evaluation report.
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7. SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION