Utilization-Focused Evaluation Recommendations

In our latest resource in the EnCompassing Evaluation series, Zachariah Falconer-Stout and Jonathan Jones look at the role of evaluation recommendations in ensuring utilization-focused evaluation. In this new resource, we clarify what EnCompass’ evaluation teams mean when they use the word “recommendations.” This resource documents how EnCompass approaches essential stages in the utilization-focused evaluation process, discussing our approaches and good practices to ensure useful and actionable evaluation recommendations. This resource also includes EnCompass good practices around co-creating recommendations with intended users, organizing recommendations for action, and managing potential bias. We invite all of you to explore the content, as well as the resources linked throughout the document.