Once you have clear outcomes for your project the next task is to identify your indicators – i.e. work out what you need to measure. This guide explains ways to develop and use indicators.
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Support Guide 1a – Setting outcomes
This guide helps organisations work out what their outcomes are and how to write them.
Support Guide 1c – Developing a Logic Model
This is a practical guide that focuses on how you put together a basic logic model to help you think about your aims, outcomes and activities.
Support Guide 2a – Designing evidence collection methods
This guide covers things organisations should think about when designing a suitable evaluation method for the evidence they want to collect.
Support Guide 2b – Storing Evidence
This guide looks at how organisations can store the information they need to use in evaluation.
Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation
This guide covers how organisations can analyse and make sense of the information they have gathered through evaluation so they can write reports.
Support Guide 3b – Report writing
This guide helps organisations think about how to turn their evaluation information in to a report for funders and others.
Support Guide 3c – Case studies
This guide looks at how organisations can use case studies to illustrate the impact of their work. Case studies not only help to bring reports to life, but they can be used in a variety of other ways depending on the audience and purpose.
Support Guide 4a – Acting on your learning from evaluation
This support guide explains the many different ways you can use evaluation for example to get better at what you do, to engage service users, or to secure funding.
Support Guide 4b – Reflective practice
In this support guide there are suggestions of tools to prompt reflective practice.
Support Guide 5a – Getting the best from an external evaluation
This guide covers how you can get the best from an external evaluation.
