Hi, friend! Then how exactly do I plan a program evaluation?

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Ok. It sounds reasonable.

It’s best to design the evaluation before the intervention begins, to ensure the evaluation provides the highest quality information possible. Start by determining your purpose and audience so you can identify the right research questions and design your evaluation accordingly. Next, take an inventory of resources available for the evaluation and align your expectations about what questions the evaluation can answer with these resources. Then describe the underlying logic, or theory of change, for the intervention. You should describe why you expect the intervention to improve the outcomes of interest and the steps that need to occur before outcomes would be expected to improve. This logic model will guide what you need to measure and when, though you should remain open to unexpected information as well as consequences that were unintended by program designers. The logic model will also help you tailor the scope and design of your evaluation to the available resources.