Translating Project Achievements into Strategic Plans: A Case Study in Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Background: Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) is a decision-making framework intended to design and implement evaluations that get utilized. In this case study, the UFE approach was applied to the evaluation of a youth training and employment program in Kenya. Purpose: Analyze a case study bas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/462 |
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| Summary: | Background: Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) is a decision-making framework intended to design and implement evaluations that get utilized. In this case study, the UFE approach was applied to the evaluation of a youth training and employment program in Kenya.
Purpose: Analyze a case study based on empirical experience with the lens of evaluation use and influence.
Setting: Nairobi and other urban and peri-urban settings, Kenya.
Intervention: The evaluation of a youth training and employment program that provided direct training for marginalized youth as well as capacity building for employment and adapted a Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) model from India.
Research design: Analysis of a case study to describe: how the evaluation approach provided enabling factors for funders and grantees to turn evaluation into a learning intervention; the benefit of clarifying a project’s theory of change; and learning how to combine summative and developmental evaluation.
Data collection and analysis: A case study based on an evaluation consultancy. The evaluation included site visits, extensive documentation review, qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Findings: The ‘facilitation of use’ (a step in UFE) provided a bridge between a summative and a developmental evaluation. The evaluators and program partners developed a learning relationship wherein the evidence influenced the subsequent project design and strategy.
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| ISSN: | 1556-8180 |