lessons learnt from evaluations of development education / awareness raising projects in europe

Lessons Learnt

from NSALA Project Evaluations

Inka Píbilová for Trialog Partnership Fair on 13-03-2013

7+2 Lessons Learnt

Invest in initial assessment

Start from the End

REACTIONS

LEARNING

PRACTICE

RESULTS

Narrow it down! France (F) Czech Rep. (CZ)

Stakeholders Power/Interest/Attitude

Infl

ue

nce

/P

ow

er

KEEP SATISFIED INFLUENCE & ENGAGE

KEEP INFORMED MONITOR Interest

Schools Municipalities

Southern producers

Big retailers

Consumers

CSOs

EU policy makers

Media

Narrow down target groups

Narrow down objectives, messages, activities

Indicator / Country 1 2 3 Total Source

10.300 copies of publications distributed

38 articles on xxxxx been published in the newsletters of companies 32 joint activities min. 5 organizations participated to the best practice meeting

80% of the participants of the best practice meeting consider it to have been useful to better integrate fair trade messages in their communication channels

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Obje

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scope

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, questions,

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schedule

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, use.

Desk study

Interviews

Surveys

Focus

groups

Case studies

Pre

limin

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fin

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gs &

conclu

sio

ns

Final

debriefing

of all partners

Communication with the Project Partners

Draft evaluation

report

commented by

all partners Fin

al evalu

ation r

eport

Inception phase

1-3 months

Field research

1-3 months

Reporting phase

1-2 months

Initia

l briefing a

nd inception

Evaluator

Selection

Context Strength Learning Need Vision / Approach

Partner 1

Partner 2

Partner 3

http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf

So what do you take away?

7+2 Lessons Learnt

Where to learn more CSO Development Effectiveness – Practitioner's Guide

http://www.cso-effectiveness.org/outcomes,007?lang=en OECD/DAC Evaluation Criteria and Principles

http://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluationofdevelopmentprogrammes/daccriteriaforevaluatingdevelopmentassistance.htm

UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre http://web.undp.org/evaluation/methodologies.htm

UNDP Evaluation Manual http://web.undp.org/evaluation/methodologies.htm

EPDET – European Program for Development Evaluation http://www.dww.cz/index.php?page=epdet

RISC - How do we know it is working? http://www.risc.org.uk/education/risc_publications.php

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Good luck!

This is just a start!

Inka Píbilová

inka@evaluace.com

www.evaluace.com