Monitoring and Evaluation
Level:
Practising
Practising
Develops and applies fit-for-purpose measures and indicators to monitor policy outcomes. Builds results of evaluation into policy making.
- Plans enablers for monitoring and evaluation early in policy development.
- Can identify meaningful information, quantitative and qualitative measures and indicators of effectiveness, impacts, and systems.
- Can apply Te Ao Māori, matāuranga Māori, and kaupapa Māori methodologies to monitoring and evaluating outcomes for Māori.
- Works with evaluation specialists to assess results, and can extract lessons learnt into policy making.
70% on-the-job learning
- Ensure that policy projects allow sufficient time for data collection and analysis.
- Critically evaluate the accuracy, completeness, consistency, uniqueness and timeliness of data you use as evidence.
- Review guidance on how to evaluate an engagement process in the Policy Community Engagement Tool.
- Learn how to design and implement or commission an evaluation or review of a policy initiative.
- Share and present your data analysis and evaluation findings from specific projects and discuss lessons learned.
20% learning from others
- Consult and work with data specialists, survey design specialists, co-design and public participation experts, and evaluation experts to learn about and ensure the appropriateness of the:
- design and collection of data and research
- design and use of survey tools for collecting qualitative information (e.g. Survey Monkey)
- design of evaluation tools to measure the effectiveness of current policy interventions or post policy implementation effectiveness.
- Join relevant communities of practice or networks (e.g. Government Economics Network).
10% formal learning
- Undertake a programme evaluation course (e.g. Programme Evaluation – Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice by University of Auckland).
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