Making a Difference: A guide to evaluating .public participation in.central government - Involve

About the Guide

• Introduction
• 1 How can evaluation help?
• 2 Public engagement in public policy-making
• 3 Thinking about objectives
• 4 When to start evaluation
• 5 Measuring success
• 6 Doing the evaluation: What should it cover?
• 7 Doing the evaluation: How to do it
• 8 After the evaluation
• Annex 1: Glossary
• Annex 2: Costs and benefits of engagement
• Annex 3: Your Health, Your Care, Your Say – a case example of evaluation
• Annex 4: Principles of good practice
• Annex 5: Guides to engagement

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When to start evaluation

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The plan for the evaluation should come in at the very earliest project planning stage
– Step 1.

Evaluation can help set objectives that can be measured – so that those running the exercise can see whether the whole process has been a success and in what ways. The evaluation then runs throughout the exercise, collecting data and reviewing progress as the project continues. The relationship between the evaluation process and the overall engagement planning process is shown in the following diagram.

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