If at the beginning of a plan or activity you have a clear idea of what you want, evaluation will help us find out if we have succeeded. For example, if we wanted to see fewer children becoming malnourished we need to know at the beginning what are the bad practices which help malnutrition occur, also other causes. The plan of action to be followed will be aimed at changing these practices and correcting the other causes. Evaluating the results will show whether the bad practices which cause malnutrition are fewer and if there are more of the right behaviours which keep people healthy. Remember, it may take sometime for the results of an activity to show, depending on the kind of health or nutrition problem which is being dealt with.
Evaluation is also important to find out:
- Why did they go well?
- What new behaviours have been learnt?
- How can they use these behaviours to solve other problems?
These answers will help us and the community evaluate and learn from a plan or activity. If the results were not what we expected, we should try to find why? Questions like these will help:
- Were there any problems in carrying out the activity?
- Did each person involved know what to do?
- Could each person do what he had p do?
- Did each person do what he had to do?
- How did he do it?
- Were the right kinds of activities chosen?
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