Planning and Evaluating your Program
Torture Technique or Useful Tool?
Logic models help us be clear on what our projects are DOING and what they are CHANGING.
Logic Model
Work plan Evaluation plan
Splash and Ripple
IMPACT
• WHY
• Big picture changes
• One statement about the preferred future
• Inspires
Outcomes
• Take place in families, organizations, and communities surrounding the participant
• You don’t have full control over these outcomes.
Intermediate Outcome Immediate Outcome
• Immediate results of your project.
• Direct result of your activities and inputs.
• Individuals directly effected by your program.
Leadership Clinic Example
Impact: Environmental educators more effectively mobilize learners to practice environmental stewardship.
Intermediate Outcome: Learners report greater readiness to practice stewardship.
Immediate Outcome: EE groups learn about best practices and document increased capacity and effectiveness.
Outputs, Activities and Inputs
Outputs – What is immediately produced by the activity, products or services.
Activities – What you do with the inputs. What the project is actually DOING.
Inputs – Human and physical ingredients, the raw materials you need to bring about change.
Leadership Clinic Example
Inputs resources we need
Executive Director (ED) (Gareth) – 0.1 Education Director (ED D) (Kathy) – 0.15
Program Assistant (Rosemary) – 0.15
Leadership Clinic Example
Activities what we do to create change
• Market leadership clinic to environmental education groups• Secure venue for the leadership clinic• Ensure a minimum of 15 applications received• Finalize a Clinic Planning Team and use selection criteria to select the teams• Conduct a participant needs assessment survey• Work with the Clinic Planning Team to develop an agenda• Complete all pre-planning and securing of resources and facilitation staff for
the leadership clinic• Deliver a 3 to 4 day leadership clinic• Conduct a leadership clinic evaluation• Provide follow-up support for teams to deliver and report on their plans
Leadership Clinic Example
Outputs deliverables that create the potential for change
• Marketing and outreach to EE groups• Venue secured• Needs assessment survey completed by team participants• Minutes from Project Planning meetings• Teams secured for leadership clinic• Delivery of 3 to 4 day leadership clinic• Summary of leadership clinic evaluations• Updates on team’s progress on achieving their plans
If we have INPUTS, then ACTIVITIES
If we have ACTIVITIES, then OUTPUTS
If we have OUTPUTS, then Immediate OUTCOMES
If we have Immediate OUTCOMES then, Intermediate OUTCOMES
If we have Intermediate OUTCOMES then, we contribute to the ULTIMATE OUTCOME
Evaluation Process
Choose your outputs and outcomes to evaluate
Select Indicators
Gather Data
Piloting/Testing
Analyze and reporting
Measuring Change
Values Shift
Behaviour Change
Benefit to the environment
Using best practices
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