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Monitoring & Evaluation
Reflection questions for ensuring your whole organization supports and benefits from monitoring and evaluation
The following questions can be helpful in ensuring that everyone in your organization supports and benefits from monitoring and evaluation:
Monitoring & Evaluation
Reflection questions for developing a theory of change
It is vitally important to start your evaluation with three basic questions about your organization and activities as a whole: In articulating your vision of change, you should be able to answer:
Monitoring & Evaluation
Monitoring & evaluation checklist
This tool is for preparing and reviewing your monitoring and evaluation of public engagement. The three overarching good practices below are intended as an all-encompassing approach to the monitoring and measurement of your organization’s public engagement strategy. While every checklist point stands as its own toolkit module, they are each Read more…
Monitoring & Evaluation
Additional resources on organizational support for monitoring & evaluation
1. Toward Good Practice in Public EngagementCCIC’s excellent document on participatory evaluation in public engagement. See pages 13-16 on organizational readiness and enabling environment. 2. Project Evaluation Guide for Nonprofit OrganizationsAn excellent resource developed by Imagine Canada to support non-profits “to conduct precise and appropriate project evaluations, and then communicate Read more…
Monitoring & Evaluation
Additional resources on monitoring & evaluation
Note that many of these resources are not focused on public engagement, but are intended as helpful tools for public engagement practitioners to adapt for their own projects and programs. 1. Better Evaluation WebsiteAn international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) Read more…
Policy
Sample public engagement policy: OCIC
This sample public engagement policy is provided as a tool to support international cooperation organizations engaged in, or interested in developing, an organizational policy that suits their needs and values. Ontario Council for International CooperationSample Public Engagement PolicyApproved by the Board of Directors – 2013 1. Preamble The Ontario Council Read more…
Policy
Reflection questions for drafting a public engagement strategy
The following series of questions will help you prepare and think through the key issues and questions involved in developing a public engagement policy. Before you start to develop an organizational public engagement policy, discuss and respond to the following questions, which were developed to help think through the why and how of your Read more…
Policy
Additional resources for public engagement policy development
Example organizational policies:Anti-oppression PolicyOCIC’s Anti-oppression Policy Other resourcesFood for thought? A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing PolicyNova Scotia Nutrition Council and the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, Dalhousie University June 2005This workbook provides a number of sections focused on developing and influencing personal, organizational, and public policy. They provide Read more…
Case Studies
Drafting a volunteer policy for public engagement
Sandra Kiviaho, the Advisor of Policy & Organizational Development at the Canadian Hunger Foundation, offers an insider’s perspective on some opportunities, challenges and tips for developing an organizational policy that can support and strengthen public engagement activities. Public engagement often requires volunteers to support its various outreach activities. Organizations may find Read more…