Drivers

Barriers

• Being able to learn from failure safely

• Joint leadership management

• Knowing why you’re doing it

• Learning, reporting

• System/roles in place that encourage doing, own acting on results

• Requiring recommendations, input data, action

• Success driven culture, not acknowledging failures

• Lack of resources to act on evaluation

• Pressure to report results before expected change can happen

• Tenure of champions to start

• Failing to integrate accountability reporting goal with learning/improvement goal

• Reactiveness to short term/lack of strategy

• Tangle up of identity/investment in approach

Learning

• Have dedicated roles/ongoing

• Recognise need for results of different scales

• Ownership of evaluation by users; focus on doing it for us – primary audience is the program delivery

• Don’t confuse evaluation for management, define framework at beginning

• Keeping progress log as living document

  • win it

  • own it – bring governance/funder along

• Distinguish monitoring from evaluation, but integration

• Whole of organisation provision, accountability and affectiveness, local tailoring and modification, to help solve local problems and make decisions

• Links to planning and goal setting – integrate with business planning

  • program log = budget

  • evaluation frame = actions

• Rather than showing individual contribution, show collective contribution of partners/stakeholders

• Have agreed/scaled indicators for different levels of intervention, different positives

• Multi-layered collaboration for intervention avoids the need for competing claims to have solved problems