Plan Evaluation

Evaluation is a critical component of all planning stage and it is said to be the most important part of design stage. The development of evaluation framework will allow managers to assess the effectiveness of planning and management process.
Although it may be obvious, it is worth restating that the purpose of an evaluation is to draw conclusion and finding about the performance of the planning process being evaluated.
It’s enables managers to determine if the plan is working to meet its objective and provides an opportunity to see if it is still relevant to used and pursed the current decisions plan.
It is not right to say that the purpose of the evaluation is solely to make changes since the findings sometime may be to reinforce an approach or set of tools currently being used, thereby strengthening their support.
The first step in developing an evaluation framework is to consider the ‘evaluation logic’ (define as the thinking and development of indicator that consistent with a judgment of planning process.) especially if the evaluation form has a focus on impact evaluation.
The “evaluation logic’ normally has four steps to be considered; they are (1) Establishing criteria, (2) Constructing standard, (3) Measuring performance and comparing with standard, and (4) Synthesizing and integrating evidence into a judgment of ‘worth’.