New evaluation course launched: Evaluating Engagement Processes
How to put the value into evaluation
Learn why and how to evaluate engagement processes
The Environment Council has developed an exciting new training course that focuses on both the value of evaluating engagement processes and the nuts and bolts of how to do it, by means of an interactive and easy to use tool.
We’ve developed this tool so that we can share our extensive knowledge and experience of evaluation with you. The tool is a web-based reference guide to the 4 key stages of effective evaluation, and the training course brings this comprehensive and interactive evaluation tool alive for you in one day.
After completing training you will have:
| > | An appreciation of why evaluation is so important for engagement processes and who benefits from evaluation |
| > | In depth knowledge of the principles and key stages of evaluation |
| > | An understanding of how to apply the tool to your work and its flexibility to suit different types of projects |
We are now taking bookings for August, September, October and November. Please click here to read more about the training course (.pdf 60 KB). To reserve your place either download the booking form (.pdf 81 KB) or contact the training team directly via email or by calling Winsome Grigor (0207 632 0108).
The Environment Council Guidance Tool on Evaluating Engagement
The Environment Council has developed a cross cutting guidance tool, funded by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. as part of their corporate stakeholder engagement approach, to make it easy to add evaluation into an engagement programme. These guidelines take you step-by-step through the stages of a robust evaluation process for engagement programmes. At each step, advice is given about why this step is important, when it should be carried out, and ideas and frameworks for implementation.
To enable ease of use, the guidelines are screen based to lead you through a menu of steps for evaluating engagement. Depending on different circumstances, these steps can be selected for different evaluations and different engagement processes. The online document allows the user to hop from step to step as necessary. Click on the screenshot below to view .pdf view of a section from the guidance tool (This Guidance Tool is Copyright of The Environment Council, 2007).
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Why evaluate engagement? > To identify outcomes and impact resulting from engagement, both expected and unexpected > To learn from previous engagement processes and demonstrate how this learning is applied > To increase confidence of those commissioning engagement by providing an evidence base > To provide an audit trail for all those involved in engagement to monitor and justify their participation > To improve the credibility of engagement as a process and provide a basis for comparison of approaches > To ensure resource efficiency > To validate new approaches of engagement > To provide stakeholders with further opportunities to participate thereby increasing buy-in > To reduce current isolation (of cases) of engagement processes that have been effective |