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RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized around the authors’ seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation implementers and managers make the best choices when faced with real world constraints. The Third Edition includes a new chapter on gender equality and women’s empowerment and discussion of digital technology and data science.
First Clarify the Purpose : Scoping the Evaluation
First Clarify the Purpose : Scoping the Evaluation
In this chapter, we introduce Step 1 of the RealWorld Evaluation (RWE) approach—“scoping the evaluation.” We begin by considering the widely different expectations that clients can have about the purpose and nature of evaluation and what they understand by and expect from an impact evaluation. It is important to understand client information needs, their assumptions on how the evaluation should be conducted, and how clients expect to use the information produced by the evaluation. We also point to the need to identify other stakeholders and the nature and degree to which they should be involved in an evaluation.
In recent years, and particularly with the increased attention to systems analysis and complexity-responsive evaluation, the ...
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