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Finding Ways to Build Internal Evaluation Capacity Through External Evaluation Processes: The Case of the New Zealand Education Review Office
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| Carol Mutch,
Education Review Office,
carol.mutch@ero.govt.nz
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The Education Review Office (ERO) is the agency mandated to review all government-funded schools in New Zealand. Schools are also required to undertake internal evaluation to inform that process. Recent reports indicate that there is wide variability in the quality of schools’ internal evaluation. In 2007, the Chief Review Officer indicated the agency’s commitment to using its expertise and access to build schools’ internal evaluation capacity. This paper reports on the first three phases of the Building Capacity in Evaluation project. The first phase gathered data to determine the current state of internal evaluation in schools. The second phase ensured that the agency’s personnel were brought up to a consistent level of understanding of the synergies between external and internal evaluation. The third phase trialed some key strategies to build this capacity. The fourth phase (not reported here) will focus on implementing and embedding successful strategies from the trial.
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Making it Worthwhile: Evaluating Organizational Benefits of Community Collaboratives
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| Branda Nowell,
North Carolina State University,
branda_nowell@ncsu.edu
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| Pennie Foster-Fishman,
Michigan State University,
fosterfi@msu.edu
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Community collaboratives are prominent vehicles for improving the community level response to a particular issue or problem domain. As such, evaluations of community collaboration have focused the bulk of their attention on evaluating community and population level outcomes. However, another important outcome of community collaboratives concerns their impact on the organizations and agencies which are represented as members of the collaborative. Unfortunately, we have less of an understanding about how participation in community collaboratives impacts member organizations and agencies. This paper will present qualitative and quantitative findings from a mixed methods study of 48 domestic violence community collaboratives examining organizational impacts. Specifically, this paper will address questions concerning the ways in which organizations/agencies benefit from their involvement; what types of benefits are most prominent; and who benefits most. Implications for conceptualizing and evaluating the effectiveness community collaboratives will be discussed.
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Organizational Learning and Partnerships for International NGOs: An Evaluation Framework for Building Coalitions and Positive Organizational Change to Promote Sustainable Health Outcomes in Developing Countries
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| Stephanie Chamberlin,
International Planned Parenthood Federation,
schamberlin@ippfwhr.org
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| Laura Ostenso,
Innovation Network,
lostenso@innonet.org
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Specifically, this paper will use institutional legitimacy theory in conjunction with community coalition theory to: I. Define gaps in the existing evaluation paradigm of the health activities of the international development NGOs (INGOs) that are funded through external aid; II. Analyze the space (political, social and cultural landscape) and capacity for the development and evaluation of organizational interventions to contribute to the establishment of coalitions that are able to improve measurable, long-term health impacts through integrated health systems. III. Provide recommendations for an analytical, ecological framework, based on Intervention Mapping; which can be utilized in the development and evaluation of ecological interventions that address multiple, integrated health problems through improved health systems. Empirical examples of syndemic health issues will be utilized to demonstrate the integrated program and evaluation recommendations in this paper.
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