How do I evaluate a participatory process?

How can evaluation help?

Evaluation can help work on public engagement in four main ways: clarifying the objectives of the exer…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

Public engagement in public policy-making

Engaging the public in policy-making is an important step. If it is not done well, it can damage the reputat…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

Thinking about objectives

The overall objective of any public engagement exercise is to get effective public engagement that makes a d…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

When to start evaluation

It is often thought that evaluation comes at the end, to see what has been achieved. Evaluation at the end w…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

Measuring success

The table below provides a simple framework for assessing the benefits of participation, based on the four g…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

Doing the evaluation – what should it cover?

The content of each evaluation will be different but the basic checklist below describes what needs to be co…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

Doing the evaluation – how to do it

There are some basic steps that most evaluation processes will go through, as follows: Scoping the evalua…
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How do I evaluate a participatory process?

After the evaluation

There is almost always a need to go beyond simply producing a final report of an evaluation. Further diss…
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