Organisational evaluation plan

Examples

Western Cape Department of Human Settlements Departmental Evaluation Plan

This evaluation plan sets out a 3-year Department Evaluation Plan (DEP) of evaluations that have been approved. The stated aims of the DEP are to:

• create a shared understanding of the purpose of the evaluation,

• foster transparency amongst stakeholders and decision-makers,

• serve as an advocacy tool for evaluation resources and

• facilitate evaluation capacity building amongst partners and stakeholders

The DEP sets out its purpose, explains linkages to provincial evaluation plans and to planning, explains the departmental evaluation system, reports on departmental evaluations and research underway, explains the criteria and process used to select evaluations, and sets out detailed concepts for five planned evaluations, as well as discussing key implementation issues.

Funding for the evaluations has been made available in the Department's Annual Procurement Plan, and the plan shows how this will be allocated across the evaluations.

The plan includes the process for follow-up to the evaluations:

“The Department will ensure that evaluations are used to improve performance and service delivery. All evaluations, where required, will have improvement plans which implementation thereof will be monitored constantly and consistently. The process of signing off involves a number of steps such as getting an official management response to the recommendations before an improvement plan is drawn up, developing of the Management Improvement Plan and have it officially signed off by the HOD (the Accounting Officer) for implementation. Progress reports on the implementation of the improvement plans compiled on a specific template will be expected from the relevant programme managers on agreed upon times.”

Development Evaluation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada

This Rolling Five-Year Development Evaluation Work Plan (2014-2015 - 2018-2019) from Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development sets out the corporate evaluations that will be undertaken and the support that will be provided to branch-led evaluations in order to achieve “100% evaluation coverage of development grants and contributions and direct program spending as required by the FAA and the 2009 TB Policy on Evaluation , while contributing to the Department's learning and decision making needs”.

Summary:

“In FY 2014-2015, the Development Evaluation Division will initiate and/or complete the following evaluations:

• Countries of concentration and regional programs: Country Program Evaluations of Mozambique and Tanzania; Ethiopia and Ghana; Indonesia; Bangladesh, as well as a program evaluation of the Canada Investment Fund for Africa.

• Countries of Modest Presence: An evaluation of programming in 8 countries with modest Canadian development assistance programs in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

• Fragile States: Country Program Evaluations of West Bank and Gaza, Afghanistan, Haiti and possibly South Sudan.

• Global Issues and Development (MFM): Review of the development effectiveness of the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations Population Fund and the International Organisation of la Francophonie.

• Partnerships for Development Innovation (PDI): An evaluation of the Partners for Development Program.

• Corporate evaluations: A meta-evaluation of Branch-led evaluations.

• Horizontal Evaluations: A formative evaluation of Canada's contribution to the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative.”