Free evaluation resources for developing countries.
Goals, Plans and Progress

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Goals:

1. To develop coalitions with evaluators and evaluation organizations throughout the world, especially from developing regions.

2. To obtain feedback from evaluators and organizations on what would be most needed and helpful.

3. To recruit educational/research/policy organizations which can house/co-sponsor/support/review this project or parts of this project.

4. To develop resources based on what is most needed and helpful. These resources could be:

• On line training classes.
  

• These classes could be prepared by evaluators in developing countries, and reviewed by a team including evaluators experienced in evaluation in developing countries, and world recognized experts at evaluation.

• People taking these classes could get a certificate of completion at the end of each class.

• Classes would be on the web in various formats such as powerpoint

• For people with limited connections, classes are also available in html.

• Each class would focus on a single idea, and would be short (to make them easily available through limited connections).
  

• On line training classes would also be translated into local languages, and the translations reviewed.
  

• The model for the classes would be HRSAs Public Health Training Center's classes, http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/publichealth/phtc.htm  for example, some evaluation classes are offered at PublicHealthLearning.com,   http://publichealthlearning.com/Public/default.aspx
  

• Another model is MENTOR (Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Training Online Resources)    http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training/mentor 
  

• All the training resources would be produced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike agreement,   http://creativecommons.org/about/license/  
  

•  On line consulting from evaluators experienced in conducting evaluations in developing countries.

• One method for on line consulting is for people to join the email list and post a description of their program. Evaluators could then discuss suggestions on the email list.

• Another method for on line consulting could be for program people to post descriptions of their program on evalwiki and then  a team of experienced evaluators could post suggestions onto evalwiki.
  

Plans:


1. All the organizational details, who can do what, what we need, all that other stuff ... input welcome!

• Obtaining institutional support for on line training, discussion list, consulting groups, etc.
  

• Make available the resources developed above.

Original proposal and feedback:

There were discussions on Evaltalk, the email list from the American Evaluation Association, and on MandE, the Monitoring and Evaluation email list.

Evaltalk  http://bama.ua.edu/archives/evaltalk.html  
MandE  http://www.mande.co.uk/  

Here are the discussions so far, on those lists.

The basic idea, Proposed Sept 9, 2007.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/basicidea.html

Major feedback focused on the ideas of cooperating closely with evaluators in developing countries, ensuring that those with slow or difficult internet connection could easily access the project, and including public education as an aspect of the project.

First response to feedback
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/response1.html

Second response to feedback
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/response2.html

Third response to feedback
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/response3.html


Prepare public education resources: response to feedback, Sept 19.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/publicEd.html


Evaluation resources should reflect local needs and conditions: response to feedback, October 1.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/Local.html