Support Guide 5a – Getting the best from an external evaluation

This guide helps organisations work out what their outcomes are and how to write them.

This guide explains ways to develop and use indicators to help measure outcomes.

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.

This guide covers things organisations should think about when designing a suitable evaluation method for the evidence they want to collect.

This guide looks at how organisations can store the information they need to use in evaluation.

This guide covers how organisations can analyse and make sense of the information they have gathered through evaluation so they can write reports.

This guide helps organisations think about how to turn their evaluation information in to a report for funders and others.

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.

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.

In this support guide there are suggestions of tools to prompt reflective practice.