Learning and Growing through Evaluation
Timeline
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When will planning and administrative tasks occur? When will training for data
collectors occur?
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When will you pilot test data collection instruments?
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When will formal data collection, analysis, and interpretation tasks occur? When will
information dissemination tasks occur?
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Upon mapping all of the above on a single timeline, are there any foreseeable bottlenecks
or sequencing issues?
Evaluation Budget
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What is the anticipated cost for this evaluation?
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Where will the funding come from to support the evaluation?
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Are any in-kind, volunteer, or partner resources being contributed?
Wrapping Up
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At the end of the evaluation, how will you acknowledge the contributions of Evaluation
Planning Team members and others who contributed to the successful implementation of
the plan?
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How will you document evaluation lessons learned in the course of implementing the
evaluation?
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How/where will you archive relevant documents, instruments, and data?
This evaluation plan template can also serve as a tool to document evaluation implementation (as
required by Evaluation Accountability Standard E1) and can also provide information to internal
or external people conducting meta-evaluations (Standards E2 and E3). Inserting the following
after each section may help with this process.
Page E-9
Planning Evaluations
Evaluation was impl
emented as planned
Changes made to the plan (describe changes as well as the rationale for changes)
