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Basic Principles of Monitoring and Evaluation for Service Providers
The aim of the booklet is to provide guidance to service providers on the principles of monitoring and evaluation and to provide a template for planning, conducting and reporting on evaluation. ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 1: Definitions and Common Concepts
Produced by the Scottish Executive's Effective Interventions Unit, each guide in this series provides straightforward guidance on the topic which is supplemented by a range of ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 2: Planning an Evaluation
This is the second in the Scottish Executive Effective Intervention Unit's Evaluation series. This Guide aims to explain the planning stage of an evaluation by describing the steps necessary ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 3: Designing an Evaluation
This is the third in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation series. This Guide aims to explain the planning stage of an evaluation by describing the steps necessary in ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 4: Implementing an Evaluation
This is the fourth in the Scottish Executive Effective Intervention Unit's Evaluation series. This Guide aims to explain the implementation stage of an evaluation.  

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 5: Reporting and dissemination
This is the fifth in the series of Scottish Executive Effective Intervention Unit's Evaluation guides. This Guide sets out how to write up and disseminate your evaluation and highlights why ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 6: Designing an Economic Evaluation
This is the sixth in the Scottish Executive Effective Intervention Unit's Evaluation series. This guide to Economic Evaluation relates inputs and outputs to costs and outcomes to ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 7: Using Assessment Data for Evaluation
This is the seventh in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation series. It examines when and how assessment data collected by drug services can be used as part of an ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 8: Evaluating Outreach Services
This is the eighth in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation series. The guide looks at evaluating outreach work. It discusses the definition of outreach, ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 9: Evaluating Employability Programmes
This is the ninth in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation series. It explains the aims and objectives of employability projects and associated evaluations. It focuses ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide10: Evaluating Community Engagement
This is the tenth guide in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation series. It looks at evaluating community engagement strategies and activities. It discusses the ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide11: Evaluating Arrest Referral Schemes
This is the eleventh guide in the Scottish Executive Effective Interpretation Unit's (EIU) Evaluation series. It is a very specific guide, designed to offer guidance on how to develop and ...

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide12: Intensive interventions with young people
This is the twelfth in the Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit (EIU) Evaluation series. It follows EIU’s research and guidance on working with young people, particularly ...

Evaluation Guidance for Practitioners: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Drug Education and Prevention Services for Young People (by Richard Ives)
This guide introduces the process of evaluation. It looks at the basics (what is the difference between monitoring and evaluation) as well as specifics of evaluating drug education and ...

Evaluation Ladder (Drugs and Housing)
This ladder was adapted by Kevin Callaghan from Cyrenians in West Lothian to use with the service users he works with. This is an excellent example of how tools can be adapted to different ...

Monitoring and Evaluating: Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programme
This is an introductory guide to monitoring and evaluation for workers in the field of youth substance abuse prevention.  It is not a detailed guide on how to evaluate but contains useful ...

Outcomes Star for Homelessness
This tool measures the outcomes of work with homeless people. It was developed by Triangle Consulting, originally for  St Mungo’s, and subsequently widely tested and revised for the ...

The Power of Proof - An Evaluation Primer
This is an online resource from the USA based Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium. It coers the whole process of evaluation from planning to reporting. It uses examples from tobacco control ...