Programme Evaluation

Question 1

What is meant by programme evaluation ?

Answer 1

A broad area that includes needs assessment, formative evaluation, evaluation of programme outcomes and cost-benefit analyses

Question 2

What is needs assessment ?

Answer 2

A set of procedures for predicting whether a population of sufficient size exists that would benefit from the proposed programme and whether members of this population would actually use this programme

Question 3

How can we assess needs?

Answer 3

-Existing data (census data, archival data, published data)
-Surveys of available resources
-Surveys of potential users

Question 4

What do we want to find out through formative evaluation and how would we do this ?

Answer 4

Is the programme being implemented as planned ?

• Carry out a programme audit that provides clear and continuing data on how the program is being used
• a pilot study

Question 5

What to we mean by evaluating programme outcomes ?

Answer 5

Overall assessments of programme effectiveness

Question 6

What is cost-benefit studies

Answer 6

Monitoring the actual costs of a programme and relating those costs to the effectiveness of a programme’s outcome