Evaluation capacity building in a rural Victorian community service organisation: A formative evaluation.

ABSTRACT: Community service organisations are increasingly required to report on outcomes and evaluate program delivery. While commonplace in clinical health settings, such work is novel to the community sector and can be challenging to undertake given resourcing and evaluation capacity constraints. These constraints are exacerbated for rural community service organisations that face additional resource pressures and lack organisational systems to support such work. This formative evaluation reports on an evaluation capacity building program within a rural place-based community service organisation in southwest Victoria, Australia. As part of the program, monitoring, evaluation, and learning pilots were implemented to support selected teams (N = 4 teams, N = 12 individuals) to increase confidence in

SUBMITTER: Kavanagh BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12310013 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature