Process and Implementation Evaluations: A Primer
Beyond assessing whether interventions have achieved their stated goals, evaluations can also provide greater understanding—in real-time and at completion—about how, where, for whom, over what time frame, and which aspects of an intervention may (or may not) have succeeded, and thus where improvements might be sought. In this chapter, Patricia J. Rogers and Michael Woolcock describe six different types of process and implementation evaluations and their respective strengths and weaknesses in various contexts, for various purposes. As part of collective efforts to enhance the effectiveness of all classes of interventions, impact and process evaluations should be regarded as necessary complements.
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