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1. Understand the importance of evaluation and why and when evaluation should be done.
2. Understand how evaluation should be integrated into intervention design and implementation.
3. Describe formative, process, impact and outcome evaluation and describe when and how to use each of these.
4. Describe the use of qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluation, and explain the benefits and limitations of each method.
5. Understand effective means of communicating evaluation results as well as the role of evaluation in identifying the key components of an intervention that are effective, for whom they are effective and under what conditions they are effective.
6. Identify potential stakeholders/partners and resources to assist in conducting an evaluation.
7. Identify potential barriers to specific types of evaluation and approaches to overcome these.
8. Develop an evaluation plan for an intervention.