Develop recommendations

Evaluations often make recommendations about how a program can be improved, how the risk of program failure can be reduced or whether a program should continue.

However, not all evaluations include recommendations. It is important to clarify whether recommendations are expected when developing the evaluation brief, terms of reference or scope of work.

If recommendations are developed on the basis of the evaluation findings, processes which involve stakeholders in developing and/or reviewing them will contribute to the use of the evaluation findings. The individual or group who has control of the evaluation – a manager or evaluation steering committee – should be consulted when developing recommendations as their support will probably be very important in order to  ensure that the evaluation findings are disseminated and used.

Methods

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