Planning For Evaluation

Rey J Layno
BECED- 4th Year
Steps of Planning Process:
1. Identify the problem
2. Determining priorities
3. Development of program goals, objectives and activities
4. Resource identification
5. Identifying constraints
6. Identify alternative strategies
7. Develop implementation strategy
8. Implementation
9. Monitoring
10. Evaluation
 What is planning?
“Plan is an systematic approach to defining the problem,
setting the priorities, developing specific goals & objectives &
determining alternative strategies, and a method of
implementation’’ • E. C Banfield defined “Plan is a decision
about a course of action”
 WHY SHOULD YOU
HAVE AN EVALUATION
PLAN?
 HERE ARE A FEW REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DEVELOP AN EVALUATION
PLAN:
- It guides you through each step of the process of evaluation

- It helps you decide what sort of information you and your stakeholders really need

- It keeps you from wasting time gathering information that isn't needed

- It helps you identify the best possible methods and strategies for getting the needed information

- It helps you come up with a reasonable and realistic timeline for evaluation

- Most importantly, it will help you improve your initiative!

HOW DO YOU
DEVELOP AN
EVALUATION
PLAN?
THERE ARE FOUR MAIN STEPS TO
DEVELOPING AN EVALUATION PLAN:
-Clarifying program objectives and goals

-Developing evaluation questions

-Developing evaluation methods

-Setting up a timeline for evaluation activities

DEVELOPING EVALUATION METHODS
Once you've come up with the questions you want to answer in your evaluation, the next
step is to decide which methods will best address those questions. Here is a brief overview
of some common evaluation methods and what they work best for.

Monitoring and Feedback System

This method of evaluation has three main elements:

- Process measures: these tell you about what you did to implement your initiative;

- Outcome measures: these tell you about what the results were; and
- Observational system: this is whatever you do to keep track of the initiative while it's
happening.
Thanks for Listening!