Small business

14.3 Evaluation
Objective: To assess the results of various programmes and provide feed forward.  
Public and private policy makers evaluate projects and programmes to provide evidence of value for
money and to find out whether changes are needed. It is important to make a distinction between formative
and summative evaluations. As explained in Chapter 1, formative evaluation examines the intervention
processes while summative evaluation seeks to measure its outcomes. The issues explored in formative
evaluation therefore determine the outcomes of the summative exercise. It is the formative issues that will
determine the capacity of an organisation to continue with an activity when external support is terminated. 
The log frame approach provides a basis for evaluation, but because of its focus on the relationship of
inputs to outputs, is in the first place a summative evaluation instrument.