Guidelines for Planning a Project Design and Management Workshop

Evaluating the Workshop

At the end of the workshop, Volunteers and Counterparts, as pairs or

in small groups, will have completed a project design. These practice

project designs are major outputs of the workshop and serve as

significant indicators of workshop success.

Additionally, there may be a desire to have a written evaluation of

the overall workshop. It is recommended that this evaluation focus

on the objectives, rather than on opinions of individual sessions.

Because the nature of the workshop is to build upon the past sessions,

evaluating each individual session is not particularly useful.

It is also recommended that a follow up evaluation be sent to both

Volunteers and Counterparts six weeks to two months after the

workshop. This evaluation might include a few open ended questions

that will help both the participants and  staff evaluate

the impact of the workshop. Some examples:

1.

What specific ideas from the PDM workshop have you used?

Describe the setting.

2.

What have you done or created that was sparked by an idea or

These practice project

event of the workshop?

designs are major outputs

3.

In what ways did the workshop affect your relationship with your

of the workshop and serve

Volunteer or Counterpart? Give one or two specific examples.

as significant indicators of

4.

In what ways have you shared any of the content of the workshop

workshop success.

with others in your community? Be specific What? With whom?

The insights gathered from this type of follow up evaluation serve

several purposes. For example, the participants themselves will be

able to learn from and build on one another 's experiences;

programmers may use the data to improve or enhance their program

designs; and trainers may draw from the examples and lessons learned

to create case studies for pre service training.

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