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Session 3

Clients & Stakeholders

Boulmetis & Dutwin, Ch3; Emison, Ch3; EPA/NCEI Guidelines for Evaluating an Environmental Program, Ch2; CDC Workbook, p. 6-9; RWJ Guide p. 8-20.

Topics:

  • Identifying clients/stakeholders as well as potentially "overlooked" statkeholders.
  • Participatory evaluation planning - the role of stakeholders in developing evaluation questions.
  • Benefits of engaging stakeholders in participatory planning.
  • A step-by-step guide to engaging stakeholders.
  • Stakeholders as "consumers" of evaluation findings and recommendations.
  • Client/Stakeholder roles and motivations.
  • Engaging stakeholders/clients.
  • Devining the purpose of the evaluation.
  • Envisioning a sucessful outcome from the client/stakeholder perspective.
  • The connection between monitoring and evlauation
  • Using evaluation results for decision-making.
  • Understanding program cycles and evaluation activities.
  • Understanding the roles and activities of the planner.
  • Conducting a needs anaylsis.
  • Program implementation and formative (aka "process") and summative (final) evaluation.
  • Types of evaluation for decision-making.

Homework:

  1. Complete the questions and excercises found at the end of Chapter 3 of The ABC's of Evlauation.
  2. Likewise complete the discussion quesitons at the end of Chapter 3 of the Emison text.
  3. How do you go about engaging stakeholders?
  4. Describe the key roles and activities of a planner.
  5. Why evaluate environmental programs?
  6. Identify the steps to an evaluation.
  7. According to the EPA, how do you decide when to undertake an internal versus an external evaluation?
  8. Distinguish between impact and outcome evaluation from the EPA perspective.
  9. What should a contractor for an internal evluation do?
  10. What should a contractor for an external evaluation do?

NOTE: Submit the questions with your answers in World format as attachments to Canvas email and submit this homework - complete with APA citations and references - to the instructor by no later than 5 pm on the last day of Session 3 (as designated on the course schedule page that is linked above).