Evaluation Plan Guidance Page 49
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68EVALUATION PLAN GUIDANCE
SOCIAL INNOVATION FUND
Reporting
The reporting strategy lists the reports that will be submitted, their timing and content.
Reports include at least a baseline and final report.
For multi-year evaluations, an annual report is included.
The content of the reports covers all the major evaluation events/activities, their results/findings, and recommendations.
Timeline
The timeline notes the period for design (including IRB clearance if needed), baseline data collection, pretesting, random
assignment, intervention implementation, post-testing, and each follow-up period, if applicable.
A timeline for data collection, follow-up, analysis, and reporting is included.
Schedule for collecting and reporting on intermediate outcomes that are aligned with logic model and evaluation design is
included.
IRB approval is included in the timeline.
Budget
A list of key evaluation and program staff/consultants, including roles and total number of hours, is provided.
Approximate costs by major components of the study (e.g., planning and project administration, instrument development, IRB
approval, sampling, data collection, data analysis, report writing, presentations), by year, are included. Please refer to the
“Examples of Budget” in Appendix C.
Unfunded, but anticipated, evaluation years are included as estimates.
IRB costs are included in the budget.
The budget is aligned with the research design and target level of evidence.
Evaluator Qualifications
The extent to which the evaluator/team has sufficient capacity to conduct the proposed evaluation, in terms of technical
experience and the size/scale of the evaluation, is described.
The evaluator/team’s prior experience with similar evaluations is described.
Evaluator Independence
Steps that will be taken to ensure the independence of the evaluation are explained.
The role that the program will play in overseeing the evaluation is described.
The process to ensure that the evaluator’s findings are released in a timely fashion, and, when the evaluation is completed, the
extent to which the evaluator will be able to release the findings without prior approval by the program/organization is described.
How the initial release of the results will be handled by the evaluator and what the program/organization role will be in
disseminating the findings is explained.
Discussion of the review process that will be used to ensure that the evaluation meets standards of scientific evidence is included.
Any potential evaluator or program conflicts of interest are explained.
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