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How to involve your partners in your evaluations
The why, what and how of involving stakeholders in evaluations.
Many different groups and individuals are stakeholders. They are all involved in, affected by or interested in the results of your evaluations, in many different ways. This multiplies your challenges.
You should involve them all – otherwise how can you be sure your evaluations are genuinely useful and have been conducted with everyone in mind? And you should be utterly clear about your objectives, or confusion can easily result.
You will have to share the evaluation process with others but do not feel you are losing control to them. You should avoid introducing bias to the study by involving others. And you should ensure their participation brings real benefits without taking too much of your time and resources.
This course gives you a whole host of practical ideas for involving stakeholders. We guarantee you will be intellectually challenged. You get a guided tour of these key areas:
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Why should you involve your stakeholders in your evaluations?
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How do you identify and select appropriate stakeholders for participating in your evaluations?
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How do you involve stakeholders in setting the evaluation agenda and in determining the evaluation questions?
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How do you involve stakeholders in interpreting evaluation findings and generating action plans?
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How do you best engage stakeholders in dialogues with one another about key evaluation issues?
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How do you engage stakeholders in reflecting about how well the programme and evaluation has gone?