Choose the level of involvement that suits you
I want to support your evaluation in the best way that fits you, your project, your staff and your organisation.
Whether your project is about to start, is currently ongoing or has reached a completion stage, you’ll probably find one of the following three options will fit the bill. If not, please Contact me to discuss other possibilities.
1. Evaluation Contribution
Appropriate when you and your organisation take overall responsibility for the evaluation, planning and carrying out the tasks yourselves. You need some advice or hands-on help with specific parts of your evaluation, such as choosing a survey method, training interviewers or analysing data.
2. Evaluating Together
Appropriate when you and your organisation want to make a significant practical input to your evaluation, and lack the time or skills to do it all. We will develop a partnership approach with shared responsibility for aspects such as the evaluation plan, data collection, primary surveys, data analysis and reporting.
3. Full Evaluation
Appropriate when a funder requires a full, independent review, or your time availability is very limited. However, please be aware that a meaningful evaluation does require a significant engagement between your organisation and myself, particularly at the outset.
Other services
Training for evaluation
I provide training for groups, and coaching for individuals, in:
- preparing an evaluation plan
- phone interview skills
- use of Survey Monkey for online surveys
- how to prepare a questionnaire
- how to analyse open-ended questionnaires
- report writing
And more…
The skills of evaluation apply to other areas of research, so I also carry out:
- feasibility studies
- scoping studies
- baseline surveys.
Please Contact me to discuss my services, and how they may fit your needs.
How I work
You’ll get a friendly, professional service keying into the way your organisation works, and also bringing in the cream of the ideas and methods I’ve gleaned from many years of conducting evaluations.
Where appropriate, I’ll share my skills with you and your staff during the course of the evaluation.
Typical steps
For a typical Independent Evaluation I will:
- discuss your needs, and help you formulate evaluation objectives
- design a method to suit your needs and budget
- obtain information through deskwork &/ or primary research
- analyse and interpret the information
- make recommendations
- run a stakeholder workshop to test emerging ideas
- provide an easy-to-read report, and a presentation
For a Supported Evaluation or Evaluation Contribution I will:
- discuss and agree with you a partnership way of working
- agree my responsibilities
- carry out relevant tasks from the above list for an Independent Evaluation.
Outputs
The outputs you can expect from an independent evaluation include:
- Report
- easy to read in plain English
- clearly structured, so readers can easily access the information they need, be it: the executive summary, detailed background, results, or key conclusions and recommendations.
- PowerPoint presentation of key results
- Stakeholder Workshop, to disseminate findings and, and test ideas to further develop your project
And when I work in partnership with you, you’ll gain:
- further understanding of the evaluation process
- new or enhanced skills for evaluation.
If you like the idea of my services, please go to my Portfolio or About May to find out more, or Contact May.