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A Guide to Self Evaluation: How to Tell You are Making a Difference: a Basic Guide for Voluntary Organisations
This booklet describes how to reach a shared understanding of: your aims; signs of success; objectives; targets; monitoring and evaluation. It offers a basic introduction to each step and ...

An Overview of Evaluation Methods
This Toolkit provides guidance on how best to use the following methods for information gathering: Counting; Observation; Documents; Interviewing; Case Studies; Group work; Questionnaires; Story ...

Analyzing Outcome Information: getting the most from data
This guide, the fifth in the Urban Institute's series on outcome management for non-profit organizations, describes steps that nonprofit organizations can take in performing this ...

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 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 ...

Evaluation Journey
This is an introductory guide to evaluation in Plain English with a good number of case studies. Published by Ash Scotland it focuses on health work but is useful for anyone who needs a good ...

First Steps in Monitoring and Evaluation; Helping you do better what you do best
This guide has been developed particularly for small voluntary organisations and those with limited experience of monitoring and evaluation. It introduces a five-step approach based ...

Guide to Social Return on Investment
Published in May 2009, this free downloadable guide explains what Social Return on Investment (SROI) is, and what the process involves. It was prepared as part of the Office of the Third ...

LEAP - A model for participatory planning and evaluation in community learning and development
LEAP stands for learning, Evaluation and Planning. There are a number of versions of the LEAP framework. This online resource looks at LEAP for Community Learning and Development. ...

Making the Case - Social Added Value Guide
The guide helps organisations in the social economy to demonstrate the social added value that is intrinsic to services they deliver. It offers a recognised way to measure the ...

Managing Outcomes - A Guide for Homelessness Organisations
This guide has been written for people working in the homelessness field. It provides definitions and examples of identifying outcomes, explores the different perspectives of stakeholder groups ...

Measuring Impact Toolkit
A free, downloadable, colourful and visual guide that covers all aspects of getting to grips with measuring impact.  It is particularly relevant to organisations working with children and ...

Outcomes Star website
The Outcomes Star™ is a unique tool for supporting and measuring change when working with vulnerable people. It is widely used and is: Underpinned by an explicit model of change

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Evaluation Resource Pack
This comprehensive pack from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation takesd the reader through the whole process of evaluation. It is clearly written and well explained, covering the pros and cons of a ...

PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations)
PQASSO is CES's practical quality assurance system for small organisations, or for projects within larger organisations. It's a low-cost, straightforward quality system, written ...

Practical Guidelines: Evaluation
This guide has been developed for projects that work to engage public audiences in science, social science, engineering and technology. It is a general overview that helps plan evaluation, ...

Practical Monitoring and Evaluation (Book) By the Charities Evaluation Services
This publication is described by CES as ‘a comprehensive and definitive guide to monitoring and evaluation for voluntary and community organisations.’ It ...

Prove and Improve
This guide offers a starting point for exploring evaluation - and in particular, self evaluation of outcomes. Published by Community Evaluation Northern Ireland and funded by the Big Lottery.

The Evidence Guide
The Evidence guide pack contains five modules: Using research evidence in practice: an introduction Locating research evidence  in five steps Appraising and ...

The Measure of Success: Developing a Balanced Scorecard to measure performance
This report introduces the Balanced Scorecard as a comprehensive view of an organisation’s performance, tying long term goals and priorities with the actions required to achieve them. A ...

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 ...

The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
This is a very clearly written guide to the evaluation process, covering self evaluation and external evaluation. It takes the reader through the whole process and includes lots of useful ...

Your Project and its Outcomes
This booklet provides a glossary explaining what outcomes and impacts are and provides examples of what these might be for different groups. The booklet also looks at the benefits of collecting ...