Importance And Importance Of Process Evaluation In Research

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Discuss the importance of process evaluations in development programs.
Introduction
Development Programmes are projects that are meant to address significant developmental challenges and opportunities arising from global trends, emergent policy issues, capacity limitations and problems in the communities. The aim being to enhance livelihoods and poverty reduction in some of the poorest communities. Knowledge, skills and experience are applied to bring about improvements in food security, sustainable agricultural productivity and natural resource management, market access and income generation, in a bid to improve livelihoods. 1
Evaluation refers to a periodic process of gathering data and then analyzing or ordering it in such a way that …show more content…

The importance of process evaluation
The process or implementation evaluation, when being done, has to have output data collected on a regular basis. This is done to monitor and describe how programme activities are being implemented. It gives an insight on whether the services that were funded were able to be provided. This provides early feedback as to whether program implementation proceeded as intended. Barriers encountered and possible changes to the original service delivery model will be encountered. Thus process evaluation helps to answer questions about why a program’s intended outcomes were achieved or not achieved. 2

Without a rigorous and systematic process evaluation, it becomes difficult to identify specific problems that occurred during project implementation that may have influenced …show more content…

It concentrates in two areas; process and coverage, measuring what is done by the programme. It is through process evaluation that the programme planners can see if the service or network of services served the intended clients, eg in a health programme revisit the beneficiary demographic and clinical characteristics. The proportion of those who completed treatment and the characteristics of defaulters. The actual process or activities carried out eg how long has the clients waited and how were they managed. The programme should be assessed whether it serve clients it was intended to serve, the contact period each client received and what percentage of the clients completed the programme. The evaluation will give a clear picture as to whether there was a positive change or impact, which enable programme planners and implementers to improve and maintain the good work. Most importantly, the programme should have clear objectives from which monitoring should base.

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