Evaluate Together

STEPS

Determine who wants to learn from the evaluation
Form a representative evaluation team with community members and other interested parties
Determine what participants want to learn from the evaluation
Develop an evaluation plan and evaluation instruments
Conduct the participatory evaluation
Analyze the results with the evaluation team members
Provide feedback to the community
Document and share lessons learned and recommendations for the future
Prepare to reorganize

STEP 6: Analyze the results.

To begin the analysis, evaluation team members review the information collected in the field. Analysis tables such as those presented at the end of the phase (see the tools section) will help the team organize the information so that data related to the same question coming from various sources can be compared and contrasted. To help ground team meetings in real data, make copies of these tables and/or prepare flip charts of the major findings so that all group members can see them and make notes on a common draft. If there is a lot of information, the team leader may want to divide the team into subgroups to concentrate on specific questions or types of data analysis before the whole group meets together to analyze the findings.

Here are some suggested general questions to guide the analysis:

To what extent has the project achieved its health objectives?
To what extent has the project strengthened community capacity/ability to sustain and further improve its health and well-being?
To what extent were process outcomes achieved?
How much did it cost?
What lessons have been learned? (What worked? What didn’t work? What would we have done differently? What will we do in the future?)
What questions remain to be answered?
What new questions have emerged?
What do we recommend to others based on this experience?