Evaluation: a guide for good practice

This booklet is a practical guide to designing and implementing evaluation for a wide range of promotion and prevention initiatives. It outlines how people can work with each other, their stakeholders, clients and community to develop relevant, affordable and achievable evaluations for their initiatives. It also demonstrates how these evaluation processes can become part of day-to-day practice.

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Evaluation is a structured, staged process of identifying, collecting and considering information.

Evaluation will help you to describe and understand the goals, progress and outcomes of many types of promotion and prevention initiatives.

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