Module 7 - Step 6 Evaluation: Is the collaborative doing its work effectively?

You many see evaluation as the end of a cycle but that does not mean it is necessarily the end of the life of the collaborative.  Although it is at the end of our step by step framework, to have an effective evaluation phase, preconditions for success must be built in early on into the process.  If evaluation of projects and programs are to take place, you need to develop measureable goals and objectives in Step 4 of the planning phase in order to evaluated the  outcomes of the strategy  in step 6. Checking in on the group process is another form of evaluation and can take place at any point in the process.