Activity: Finalize Evaluation Plan
The goal of this activity is to review, finalize, and prepare to share the evaluation plan with leaders in the organization, as well as to prepare to move on to the Evaluation Implementation phase.
Using the Evaluation Plan Feedback Form feedback may be provided to each working group about their entire plan. If possible, it is useful to receive feedback from peers and colleagues as well as the Evaluation Champion. If necessary or desirable the working group(s) may continue to edit their plan until they are happy with it, at least for this evaluation cycle. We recommend printing and binding the entire plan so that it is available to the Evaluation Champion, working group, program leader, external evaluator (if used) and organization director. We have also learned that the work done on the modeling for evaluation purposes is quite useful to organizational and program planners and developers as they move to the future. A good evaluation plan helps them to present their programs to funders and other stakeholders.
It may seem like the plan is never quite complete and ready for printing, but there comes a time when you have to stop planning and begin implementing the evaluation plan and is not practical to keep fine tuning it. Those edits can be reserved for the next evaluation cycle.