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Approach in Action

Programme and Project Evaluation

Baseline, mid-term and final evaluations that answer the questions decision-makers actually have.

The problem we solve

Evaluations are often late, descriptive and hard to use: they count activities, rely on weak data and end with recommendations nobody owns. A useful evaluation starts from the decisions it must inform and tests the programme's logic with credible evidence.

Our method, phase by phase

1

Inception and evaluability

  • Reconstruct the theory of change and results framework with the client
  • Agree evaluation questions against the OECD DAC criteria
  • Check what data exists, its quality and the gaps
Deliverable: Inception report with evaluation matrix
2

Methods and instruments

  • Choose the design (contribution analysis, mixed methods, quasi-experimental where data allow)
  • Draft survey, interview and focus group tools; test them
  • Agree sampling and ethics, including safeguarding and data protection
Deliverable: Approved instruments and sampling plan
3

Data collection

  • Review documents and monitoring data
  • Key informant interviews, focus groups and site visits
  • Surveys with digital data capture and daily quality checks
Deliverable: Clean data set and field report
4

Analysis and validation

  • Triangulate sources for every evaluation question
  • Rate performance against the criteria with the evidence shown
  • Validate emerging findings with the client and stakeholders
Deliverable: Findings presentation and validation workshop
5

Reporting and use

  • Concise report with conclusions linked to evidence
  • Recommendations with owners, priority and timing
  • Management response template and a learning session
Deliverable: Final report, summary and management response plan

Try the instruments live

The same instruments we use with clients. Try them with your own organisation; your answers stay in your browser until you ask for the result.

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What you receive

  • An evaluation matrix linking every question to sources and methods
  • Tested instruments and a clean data set
  • Ratings against relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability
  • Recommendations with owners and a management response plan

How we keep quality

  • Methods and tools agreed with you at inception, then applied openly
  • Every finding linked to its evidence
  • Senior review of every deliverable before it reaches you
  • Knowledge transfer: your team keeps the tools and routines

Reference frameworks: OECD DAC evaluation criteria

Programmes that build this capacity

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