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EVALUATION READINESS

It is important to think about your evaluation capacity before jumping in. If capacity is too low at an individual, organizational, or environmental level, there is risk of doing harm. However, there are strategies to address capacity, once you know where capacity needs to be built.  

A holistic look at evaluation readiness will consider:

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The individual level

  • Skills

  • Knowledge

  • Attitudes 

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The organizational level

  • Required resources

  • Supportive cultures 

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The environmental level

  • Funding requirements

  • Evaluation expectations 

  • Potential lack of resources that hinder execution ​

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Evaluation Readiness Tool

The Evaluation Capacity Network provides a 28-item Evaluation Capacity Needs Assessment (ECNA) Tool, to assess your own evaluation capacity. This comes with proposed scoring and interpretation instructions to support the practical use of this tool.

www.evaluationcapacitynetwork.com/resources/ecna-tool


Hiring research consultants
 

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Are you thinking of hiring a research consultant to support your project or build capacity? We (the Centre for Community Based Research) created a checklist for community organizations and groups to use when deciding whether to work with external researchers.

Click the image to open the PDF

Also, learn more about the support we (the Centre for Community Based Research) can provide as a consultant 
www.communitybasedresearch.ca/

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