Evaluation Capacity-Building

Evaluation Capacity-Building is about aligning your vision (leadership), your people (knowledge, skills, attitudes), and your systems (technology, policies, procedures, tools) to help you effectively and routinely undertake evaluation and use your findings for decision-making and action. It involves nurturing a culture that values curiosity, data and evidence, and evaluative thinking.

How We Help

We start by assessing your current evaluation capacity and clarifying where you want to go, and then we help you get there by providing custom capacity-building services suited to your unique needs and context. Our capacity-building services include:

  • Capacity assessment and capacity-building planning

  • Group training and workshops for program teams, leadership teams, boards, participant advisory groups, and others

  • Individual or group coaching and mentoring (e.g. for executive directors, program directors and managers, measurement staff, direct line staff)

  • Facilitation of meetings and group learning processes (e.g. improvement teams, learning communities, communities of practice)

  • Technical assistance or consultation on specific capacity-building projects (e.g. developing organization-wide evaluation policies, aligning data collection across programs or sites, creating procedural manuals, developing dashboards)

Sample Deliverables

Capacity Assessment Report and Recommendations | Capacity-Building Plan | Staff Workshop | Board Presentation | Evaluation Policy | Procedural Documents/Manuals | Dashboard Report

Sample Workshops

  • Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

  • Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles and the Method for Improvement

  • Evaluation 101

  • Gathering and Using Participant Feedback to Improve Programs

  • Logic Models

  • Developing an Evaluation Framework for Nonprofit Organizations

 

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