BETTER EVALUATION - A SERIES OF FREE ONLINE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS

We all want to make a positive difference through our work but can struggle to understand and demonstrate that difference clearly. How do you practically work out the contribution you are making? How can you be assured you are not doing harm or unintentionally holding the status quo in place? How can you learn and adapt along the way?

These workshops are designed for those newer to evaluation or those less experienced or confident about evaluation, who want to be exposed to some key ideas, frameworks, tools and guidance to better evaluate their mahi. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and share their own experience of useful approaches with the group. The focus will be on sharing what is helpful and what has been found to be effective.

Tuesday 9 August 10am-11.30am
Session 1: Key ideas and useful frameworks
This session will share recent thinking from Aotearoa and around the world on how to approach and think about evaluation (what it is and key principles). Three useful evaluation frameworks will be introduced.

Tuesday 23 August now rescheduled to Tuesday 13 September 10am-11.30am
Session 2: Getting to‘value’ in evaluation – how can we know what good looks like?
This session will explore how to develop evaluation criteria that allow you to assess what ‘good’ looks like in relation to your kaupapa. This is the critical piece that is often left out – on what basis do we determine merit, worth or value?

Tuesday 30 August now rescheduled to Thursday 22 September 10am-11.30am
Session 3: Tools to gather data and capture learning
This final session will bring together some of the most useful tools we have come across to gather robust data and information and capture learning. It will challenge you to broaden your ideas about what counts as ‘evidence’ and to get more creative in how you evaluate progress.

Facilitators

Our evaluation sessions will be facilitated by Centre for Social Impact facilitator, Rachael Trotman. An evaluator with over 20 years’ experience across diverse sectors, Rachael has a passion for supporting people to know and show the difference they make. She is the Coordinator of Ngā Tau Tuangahuru - the Māori and Pacific Education Initiative Longitudinal Study, and Lead Evaluator for Foundation North’s Gulf Innovation Fund Together (GIFT).

Session two will be co-facilitated with Kate McKegg, another highly experienced evaluator. Kate’s evaluation experience also spans 20 years, working with people and organisations in the public, not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors. She has specialist skills in helping organisations develop evaluation systems and frameworks. Kate was a founding member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA).

Workshop places are limited to 100. Please register now to secure your place.