Guidelines for Evaluating Community Crime Prevention Projects
CONTENTS
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Introduction
- Who the Guidelines are for
- How to use these Guidelines
- What is evaluation?
- When to plan the evaluation
- Types of evaluation
- People and groups in the evaluation
- The stages in an evaluation
Stage 1: Setting up
Stage 2: Managing stakeholders
- Identifying stakeholders and interested parties
- Bringing stakeholders into the evaluation process
- Summarising what stakeholders want and need
- Points for managing stakeholders
Stage 3: Scoping the evaluation
Stage 4: Planning for action
- When to start drafting an action plan
- Planning to release the findings
- Planning for action once the findings are released
- Drafting the action plan
- Checking the draft action plan
- Refining the evaluation timetable
- Refining the action plan
Stage 5: Selecting an evaluator
- Developing the evaluation brief
- Information about the project
- Deciding on internal and external evaluators
- Identifying the skills needed
- Selecting an internal evaluator
- Tendering for an external consultant
- Drafting the contract
Stage 6: Managing the evaluation
- Briefing the evaluator
- Writing the evaluation method, timetable and budget
- Monitoring the evaluation
- Keeping stakeholders informed
- Reviewing preliminary findings
- Revising the action plan
- Checking drafts of the final report
Stage 7: Acting on the findings
Planning Sheets
- 1A: Drafting the evaluation timetable
- 1B: Estimating evaluation costs
- 2A: Affected people and groups
- 2B: Information from stakeholders
- 2C: Information stakeholders want
- 3: Scoping the project
- 4A: Planning for action
- 4B: Refining the evaluation timetable
- 5A: Reasons for evaluating
- 5B: Constraints on the evaluation
- 5C: Updates from the evaluator
- 5D: Skills the evaluator will need
- 5E: Selection timetable-internal evaluator
- 5F: Selection timetable-external consultant
- 5G: The successful applicant
- 6: Issues in the evaluation