STEPS - steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change (useful free online resource)

Here's a new resource that might be of interest, brought to our attention by Craig Zelizer of the Peace and Collaboration Development Network:

STEPS - steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change
What is it?

STEPS is a program planning, monitoring, and evaluation toolkit

STEPS is a resource that applies a rights-based social justice perspective to program development and evaluation

How is it helpful?

It helps make the program process a continual cycle of learning, improvement, and accountability

It helps you develop and evaluate rights-based social justice interventions

It helps you clarify the purpose of your work

It helps you create a truly participatory program process

It helps you break down complex goals such as women's empowerment and gender equality into locally meaningful components that can serve as the basis for programming and evaluation

It helps you conduct participatory, low-cost self-assessments of your work

It helps you learn how to use a causal pathway and a logical framework in a flexible and useful way

http://www.stepstoolkit.org/