is an ‘evaluation report’? 1. Your task is to evaluate a participation or engage

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is an ‘evaluation report’?
1. Your task is to evaluate a participation or engagement strategy. For example, user participation in health services, youth participation, strategies about getting more women, disabled or people of colour into positions of power, participation in international development, UK participation policy e.g. Big Society
2. You should include examples/ projects of these strategies. E.g. ‘National Citizen’s Service and Youth Participation’
3. You may use your own examples but this must be clearly stated and referenced if available
What does ‘evaluation’ mean?
1. Critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the strategy in question
2. Analyse the strategy in relation to the available literature on the topic (what we’ve introduced/covered in class/course reading list)
3. Come to a judgement of the success or otherwise of the strategy
Content and structure
This report should be written in an essay format
A basic structure for an evaluation should include the following:
a) Introduction – identifying the topic and the strategy.
Introducing some key debates about the topic in the literature
b) Introduce the strategy- what was it, when was it delivered, who was it aimed at, what were its overall objectives
c) Analyse the strategy- what were its strengths and weaknesses, did it succeed? Here you should aim to refer back to the participation literature when forming your judgements
d) Conclusion- summarising main points and suggesting

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