Performance Measurement
Program evaluators should help design performance measurement systems to ensure that needed data are targeted for collection.
This brief describes key research questions to keep in mind when evaluating community development efforts. The author further reviews how different evaluation approaches – from performance management and process study to experimental design and theory of change – can address core components of evaluating Promise and Choice Neighborhoods.
Creating change or transforming neighborhoods is the main goal of most comprehensive community development efforts. Evaluations of such initiatives must balance the desire for rigorous causal evidence with political, economic and methodological realities.
