Developing a performance story report: user guide
Dr Alice Roughley (Australian Government Land and Coasts) and Dr Jessica Dart (Clear Horizons)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2009
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Summary
This guide outlines a step-by-step process for developing a performance story report in the context of natural resource management (NRM).
The guide can be used in a range of contexts by evaluators and others who want to use participatory evaluation approaches to report on outcomes. Users may include consultants, government and non-government organisations, community groups, students, natural resource management organisations, industry bodies and academics. The guide will enable them to evaluate and report on program outcomes and continually improve their programs based on lessons learned through participatory evaluation approaches.
Performance story evaluation is useful for both internal and external evaluations and learning. Performance story reports are effective for reporting annually on achievements from one year to the next.
This document should guide the participatory evaluation approach but should not restrict innovation. Practitioners are encouraged to adapt the methodology to their particular context and budget.
The approach described in this guide is not intended to assess the efficiency of a program. Financial reporting and cost–benefit assessments require a different methodology.
This guide needs to be used in conjunction with the program logic user guide.
This document is a part of the monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement toolkit.
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