Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes (BCEO Resource)

Building capacity in evaluating outcomes: A teaching and facilitating resource for community-based programs and organizations provides 93 activities and materials for practitioners working in and with community-based programs to use in building the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations in evaluating outcomes. It provides, in one place, a complete set of practical resources that can be readily used or modified when working with community-based programs, including:

• Eight units that cover the core topics of evaluation: getting ready; planning; engaging stakeholders; focusing the evaluation; collecting data; analyzing data; using data; and managing an evaluation. Each unit includes hands-on activities, handouts and a slide presentation.   
• A Facilitator’s guide that provides resources and tips to enhance learning, as well as strategies to evaluate your own evaluation capacity building work.
• A glossary, key resource list, and bibliography.

The BCEO Resource is available two ways:

1. By ordering a printed copy from the BCEO Resource page on the UW-Extension, Cooperative Extension Publications web site http://learningstore.uwex.edu/
   
   
2. By viewing or downloading the PDF and/or PowerPoint file:

• BCEO Resource PDF file (514 pages, 9,900 KB)
  Use the bookmarks tab in the PDF file to navigate within the document and find specific pages.
  
  
  • Content guide for the resource (22 pages, 80 KB)
    This is part of the full manual above. Use this file as a quick reference to the content of the manual. It lists all activities and the materials needed for each.

  Slide presentations.
  The full manual includes printed slide handout pages, 6 slides per page.
  The links below allow you to download the PowerPoint file for use in making presentations.

  • Unit 1 slides (22 slides, 500 KB)
  • Unit 2 slides (15 slides, 1100 KB)
  • Unit 3 slides (14 slides, 1600 KB)
  • Unit 4 slides (34 slides, 3000 KB)
  • Unit 5 slides (146 slides, 2100 KB)
  • Unit 6 slides (20 slides, 900 KB)
  • Unit 7 slides (36 slides, 4,400 KB)