forecast (or official forecast if
available) of the other factors.
Options
All appraisals should
should normally
normally examine
a number of different options for the
Policy
Outcome, Outturn
policy and its execution.
evaluation should review the options
chosen and if appropriate
identify
new ones.
What actually happened. This may refer
to outputs, inputs, costs and
revenues.
Outcome is also sometimes used for
outputs that cannot easily be quantified
in money terms, but this is not official
Treasury parlance.
Outputs
an
The things or conditions
produced
by
organisation.
An
output
A
can be
said to be more final than output B,
if B contributes to A. B is then said
to be an
intermediate
output.
For
each
level
of
output
there
is
a
These
are
corresponding objective.
also referred to as final (or sometimes
ultimate
objectives) and
intermediate
objectives (or sometimes sub-objectives).
Outputs should be stated in a way which
renders them observable, and if possible
quantified.
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