Evaluation Capacity Building & the role of the mentor

Andrew Hawkins, Principal ConsultantARTD Consultants

Who does the evaluating?

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• Internal/external with a mentor has the potential for all of the above

+ evaluation capacity building

+ cost effectiveness

• Internal: content knowledge, policy directions, evaluation consumer supports use of the findings

• External: methodological expertise, independence, quality assurance supports credibility of the findings

Mentor

The word Mentor evolved to mean trusted advisor, friend, & teacher.

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What is this policy or program trying to do: what is the program

logic?

What do we need to know about it: what decisions need to be

made by whom?

What data do we already have or can

we get easily?

What new data will we need to collect and how will we

analyse it?

How much time and money do we have?

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Mentoring case study

Contact

Feel free to email me with any questions

Andrew Hawkins

andrew.hawkins@artd.com.au

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Jen Davis from HREOC (and probably Ben—but he is right here so

you can ask him) is also happy to talk to you about ECB in a government context