Category: Evaluation

Feeling in the holiday spirit? Kylie Hutchinson, principal consultant with Community Solutions has a nonprofit Christmas Carol for you – “Knockin’ Around the Strategic Plan”, sung to the tune of Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. You can access this carol and others on the Community Solutions website here. Questions? Comments? Email [email protected] Elayne Vlahaki, MPH… Read more »

Traditional evaluation reports often end up on the shelves of many decision-makers collecting dust. Reporting is an important skill for evaluators who care about seeing their results and recommendations actually implemented. In this webinar, evaluator Kylie Hutchinson of Community Solutions will help you learn how to turn your findings into something more useful and meaningful… Read more »

Engaging stakeholders in the development of evaluation questions is one way to ensure the relevance and usefulness of the evaluation process, findings and recommendations. FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, has created a report that outlines how to effectively engage stakeholders during this critical evaluation step called, “Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions”. This practical… Read more »

Are you interested in learning about program evaluation? The American Evaluation Association is hosting an online course that provides an introduction to the major steps in designing and conducting a program evaluation. Using CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation, the course will emphasize the central importance of setting the right evaluation focus and asking the right evaluation… Read more »

Are you interested in sustainable development and how the field of evaluation relates to that concept? The Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) is hosting a webinar on the intersections between evaluation and sustainable development, and will explore how interventions and evaluations are lagging in addressing the sustainability imperative. See below for a description of the webinar. Sustainable… Read more »

Many people interested in gathering data for program design or evaluation purposes find that their toolkit is insufficient in gathering accurate, reliable, and relevant data in order to give voice to persons living in situations of vulnerability, powerlessness, or marginalization. The American Evaluation Association is offering a 20-minute webinar that will provide an example of… Read more »

The Public Health Ontario (PHO) is offering a webinar that provides an overview of the 10 steps in developing and implementing an evaluation. This includes planning an evaluation, developing good evaluation questions and indicators, understanding and choosing the best methods for your evaluation, and how to make best use of evaluation results. As PH examines… Read more »

Are you a program manger looking for some straightforward advice on program evaluation? Kylie Hutchinson, Principal Consultant of Community Solutions provides you with just that in her article, “Evaluation Do’s and Don’ts for Program Managers”. Kylie’s advice is practical and useful, as it is informed by her vast experience working with non-profit organizations on program… Read more »

Many organizations would like to make better use of research, but aren’t sure where to start. Others feel they’re doing well, but would also like to know if there are areas they could improve. The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) has developed an organizational self-assesment tool that aims to help an organization evaluate its strengths and… Read more »

The gap between research and public health practice and policy has been well documented in the grey and peer-reviewed literature. Realizing the need to address this gap, the evidence-based decision making movement was born. The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools offers an online learning module outlining the basics of evidence-informed decision making in… Read more »

Rights-based evaluation means that evaluators focus on the rights of stakeholders as identified in such documents as the UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities or the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Adopting such an approach has implications for the types of evaluation questions that are used to frame… Read more »