best approach may be to make it a condition of receiving
the grant that the recipients answer a questionnaire,
to be completed at different time stages, including
questions designed to elicit to what extent the grant
has changed the recipient's action.
There may also be
indirect ways of throwing light on the same question.
Have new employees been taken on? Would an analysis
of trends in some key
key accounting ratios be likely to
offer insights?
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Efficiency indicators are generally ratios of some
aspect of output and some aspects of input. Ideally
they express the ratio of costs to benefits of each
objective, and they enable managers to compare the planned
ratio with the ratio which might be achievable by
alternative policies.
27 Underlying all
evaluation must
be a clear
understanding of the benchmark against which the outturn
is to be compared. The choice and definition of the
benchmark can itself often be difficult.
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The
been
PREPARING THE EVALUATION PLAN
plans are usually those which have
best evaluation plans
discussed at different levels within the policy
line. Sometimes those down the line can suggest good
intermediate objectives which the manager further up
might not have seen. It is worth taking time to involve
as many people as possible.
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