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WHAT YOU DO: determine the focus of your evaluation.

THE OUTCOME: have a clear idea about what part of your impact assessment you want to evaluate.

With your team, you should now agree what part(s) of your impact assessment you’ll focus on in your evaluation.

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Intended Learning outcomes (ILOs)

This page is designed to help you:

Determine the focus of your evaluation
Have a clear idea about what part of your impact assessment you want to evaluate.
Feel comfortable with what we mean by evaluating your impact assessment process.

How to focus your impact assessment

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title	How to focus your impact assessment evaluation

Ways to evaluate your impact assessment	Pros	Cons
1. Each step in your impact approach (i.e. systematically going through each phase)	Ensures nothing is forgotten	Rigid process Might take more time
2. The whole process (i.e. i.e. leave it open for your colleagues to share what they thought went well and didn't)	Most important discussion points likely to surface organically	Some aspects may have been forgotten about, particularly after some time has passed
3. Specific part(s) of your impact assessment (i.e. choose one or more parts of the impact assessment, such as impact measurement, narration, etc.)	Helps focus on improving specific areas of your impact assessment process Useful if you don’t have much time Useful if you are already very skilled in impact assessment and want to improve in specific areas	Your priority areas might be different from others in your team May lose the opportunity to collect feedback and improve in other areas

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title	Impact narration, visualisation and communication of your findings

Think about…

Constructing the narrative. Was there something missing? What can be added or dismissed in the future? Could the narrative have been simpler, e.g. avoiding jargon, or more concise?
Perspective and objectivity. How did you respond to less positive results? How did your audiences respond to the narrative?
Visualisation. Did a visual element(s) support your narrative? Was it effective? What would you change or improve in future?
Dissemination of the findings. How widely your findings were shared? Were there limitations in sharing the results? What could have been improved?
Using the findings. How have your findings been used? What barriers have there been to change?
Impact. Have the findings led to the desired impact?

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