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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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