About Building Evaluation Capacity (BEC)
The Building Evaluation Capacity (BEC) program is designed to provide training and necessary tools to the participating ENGOs. This will allow them to conduct their own internal evaluation program to measure their impacts and critically assess their programs effectiveness and progress. Furthermore, this will assist in identifying and implementing strategies to improve their programs and to sustain their environmental goals.
Why BEC Is needed
The BEC project provides an opportunity to the ENGO partners to learn about program planning and evaluation concepts, techniques and strategies in which they can apply into their own internal programs. This will enable the participating ENGOs to monitor results and continually identify ways to increase the impact of their activities.
BEC Goals
- To increase the ability of environmental organizations, build evaluation strategies and activities into their program design and delivery
- To build an understanding of why evaluation is required and how to benefit from it;
- To increase the ability of ENGO partners, improve their programs’ and share their successes and lessons learned with others;
- To support funders’ acceptance of the evaluation as a necessary budget item; and
- To reduce the costs of evaluation by an external evaluator for ENGOs, by building their internal evaluation capacity and expertise.
Benefits of Evaluation
The evaluation process:
- Forces the program designer to promote clear objectives, design achievable goals and outcomes;
- Helps to assess whether programs are achieving their intended purpose;
- Identifies the strengths and weaknesses of program design or implementation;
- Helps staff members think critically about the program design and to identify the strengths and weaknesses;
- Demonstrates accountability to funders; and
- Strengthens the public image and credibility of their organization and their programs.
What will BEC do?
The BEC project will develop and deliver an evaluation training program for participating ENGOs and identifies opportunities to continue to provide evaluation capacity training to the wider ENGO communities.
BEC Partners
BEC Resources
Evaluation Resources
BEC Contact
To find out more about the BEC program e-mail Susan Sang at ssang@cleanairpartnership.org or call 416-392-0255.
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