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This discussion by Professor Nóirín Hayes, PhD, explores the critical importance of project evaluation, emphasizing its role in enhancing management practices, ensuring transparency, and fulfilling donor requirements. The evaluation process involves assessing a project's relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability. Professor Hayes highlights various evaluation types, including process, continuous feedback, and terminal evaluations, while discussing their implications for immediate and broader impacts on participants, curricula, and society. The session advocates for a culture of reflective practice in project management.
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‘Project evaluation’Possibilities and challenges Professor Nóirín Hayes PhD , CSER, Dublin Institute of Technology April 2012
Socrates, at his trial for heresy. He was on trial for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time and think for themselves. Socrates, 469-399 BC Why evaluate [question]?“The unexamined life is not worth living”
----- and also because, • It’s good management practice – learning for the future • Transparency of budget spend and ‘value for money’ • Requirement of donors
Some definitions • Evaluation: • a periodic assessment of the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, economic and financial viability, and sustainability of a project in the context of its stated objectives • Process evaluation – ongoing • “Did you do what you set out to do, and can this be measured?”
Immediate impact Impact on workshop participants Impact on curricula Impact on students Wider impact Impact on the university Impact on the media environment Impact on wider society, attitudes and behaviour Immediate and wider impact of ‘Children’s Rights and journalism Practice’ programme
‘The Project cycle’, Warren Baum (1982). The World Bank • Identification • Preparation • Appraisal • Negotiation and approval • Implementation and supervision • Implementation complete • Evaluation
Evaluation and the Project cycle This is the last stage. It follows the final disbursement of funds for the project. An independent department … reviews the current report ….. and prepares its own assessment of the project, often by reviewing materials….. This ex-post evaluation provides lessons of experiences which are used in subsequent identification, preparation or appraisal work.”
Process evaluation Continuous feedback Documentation Focus groups Interviews Longitudinal perspective Terminal evaluation Often accompanied by mid-term evaluation Advantage of ‘cold appraisal’ Stance of constructively critical new manager is useful Process and terminal evaluation
Approaches • Qualitative • Professor • Implementation • Successes • Barriers • Students • Feedback • Effectiveness • Impact • Quantitative • Monitoring training • Numbers • Monitoring Outputs • Examples from various media • Monitoring local law and regulation • Developing a cross cultural resource
