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OUR
APPROACH TO EVALUATION
With
a special interest in consultation and facilitation, RMC
consultants have assisted clients in areas ranging from
multi-million dollar federal projects to grass-roots,
community-based projects - in areas ranging from anti-drug
profiteering to the use of helicopters in law enforcement
to native alcohol awareness programs to drug education
and enforcement.
Our approach to Evaluation is
shaped by a number of general guidelines:
- First, our evaluations focus
on issues which will contribute to a more efficient
and cost effective management process.
- Second, key elements of a comprehensive
Evaluation which we address include:
- Direction
(e.g., mandate/mission statement, long range goals
and objectives, annual goals and objectives, performance
measurement),
- Resources
(e.g., personnel, facilities, equipment, training),
- Organization
(e.g., allocation of responsibilities),
- Strategies and Tactics
(e.g., at both corporate and local levels, partnerships),
and
- Support Systems
(e.g., financial budgeting and expenditure control,
management information systems, communications).
- Third, key stakeholders are
involved at all stages of the evaluation process
- from the initial planning
and design,
- through the implementation
and data collection, and
- through the development and
discussion of results.
- Forth, information of value
to key stakeholders is provided on an ongoing basis
throughout the project.
- Finally, our evaluations are
viewed as a positive process
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