Evaluating programs is crucial for understanding their effects, conveying their impact, and ensuring continuous improvement. With various frameworks and preferences, it can be challenging to determine which path best suits your needs.

Evaluation, often seen as only measuring program impact or as a “nice-to-have,” can actually be a critical tool that helps organizations maximize their impact while also conserving their resources.

Program evaluation is an important process for assessing the implementation and impact of programs and initiatives. It is critical to conduct program evaluations with equity in mind to ensure they do not perpetuate systemic biases and disparities.

In addition to quantitative data, one of the most valuable data sources for a program evaluation is client feedback. While client feedback is often collected, incorporating clients’ true voice is often overlooked in many program evaluations.