Designing an Implementation Evaluation: A Guide for Regional Partnership Grant Recipients
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Designing an Implementation Evaluation: A Guide for Regional Partnership Grant Recipients

Published: Aug 27, 2024
Publisher: Office of the Administration for Children & Families, Children's Bureau
Human Services Child Welfare Child Support Federal Research and Evaluation Evaluation Design

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Associated Project

Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation

Time frame: 2012-2027

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau

Authors

Subuhi Asheer

Betsy Keating

Key Findings

  • Implementation evaluations can help RPG grant recipients understand how a funded program or set of services were delivered.
  • Implementation evaluations typically focus on the process of program delivery and lessons learned rather than examining participant outcomes.
  • Findings from implementation evaluations help interpret quantitative results of impact or outcome evaluations and help explain the reasons why an intervention was able to meet its intended goals.
The evaluation technical assistance brief provides a step-by-step guide for how RPG projects might plan for an implementation evaluation. The brief highlights four steps for designing an implementation evaluation: (1) developing research questions; (2) identifying data sources; (3) defining the timeline and approach for data collection; and (4) planning for analysis and reporting.

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