Why Evaluate?

Conducting an evaluation, which is a judgment of the merit or worth of a program, process, policy, performance, etc., yields enormous benefits to the individual organization and associated stakeholders.

• Saves time, money, and other resources
• Obtains a deeper understanding of the evaluand in its respective context
• Offers a fresh look at the evaluand
• Tracks changes to the evaluand over a given period of time
• Yields evidence of program change, and can facilitate program and policy development, reform, or improvement