“Given the growing number of partnerships, monitoring and evaluation of, for, and through partnerships faces new challenges. Partnering raises critical questions about the extent to which collaboration actually adds value in terms of both process and outcomes, and how judgments are made (Atkinson, 2005). Evaluating partnerships is difficult for various reasons such as long timescales for achieving impact, different perspectives on what success means, the complexity and variability of partnership interventions, and the different context within which partnerships work. Neither the efficiency of the partnering process itself, nor its effectiveness in addressing set goals is easy.”

This module walks partners through important questions including: Why should your partnership evaluate?; Who should evaluate what?; and Who is evaluating whom?