Evaluation Policy Sprint

Starts:  Oct 16, 2024 02:00 PM (ET)
Ends:  Nov 6, 2024 03:00 PM (ET)

  • Registration deadline: TBD

  • Sprint start date: Oct 16, 2024

  • Sprint end date: Nov 6, 2024

  • Duration: 4 weeks

  • Session time: Wednesday 2:00 PM ET

  • Eligibility to register: Local/city governments in North, Central & South America

  • Recommended audience: City staff who work closely with the program or process you want to evaluate as well as someone with some evaluation or data experience.

  • Languages: English , Spanish, and Portuguese

WHAT IS AN EVALUATION POLICY?

A document that affirms and outlines a city-wide commitment to the use of evaluations to improve policies, programs, and services. This can be an internal-facing guide, a departmental guide, or a public-facing document.

An evaluation policy can impact your city by:

  • Formalizing city leadership’s commitment to widespread evaluation.

  • Ensuring evaluation stays important even when leaders change.

  • Strengthening your local government’s culture of using data and evidence.

  • Establishing clear structures, teams, and budgets for evaluation.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?

Each city team should include:

  • At least one senior city staff member who has an understanding of evaluation and how the city could use evaluation more broadly. Typically this is someone who oversees work related to innovation, performance, evaluation, or data.

  • At least one person with the relationships and know-how to pass policies within the city.

  • (optional) Someone who leads or works with a department that regularly runs programs.

COURSE OVERVIEW

The course consists of:

  • Four 1 hour live virtual workshops

  • Five 30 minute 1-on-1 coaching calls with a BIT evaluation coach

  • Weekly assignments that will build to a draft evaluation policy

Week by week:

  • Week 1: Introduction to the evaluation policy

  • Week 2: Drafting the policy (part 1)

  • Week 3: Drafting the policy (part 2)

Week 4: Socializing the policy

I’M INTERESTED! WHAT’S NEXT?

  • Complete this form to register. Our team will reach out to schedule a 15 minute pre-course coaching call

  • Form your project team of 1-3 staff members

HOW DOES THIS COURSE SUPPORT MY CITY TOWARDS ACHIEVING WHAT WORKS CITIES CERTIFICATION?

  • Passing an evaluation policy satisfies the requirements for What Works Cities criterion EVAL1: Establishing City-Wide Evaluation Commitments

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About What Works Cities

This learning opportunity and more are available to staff in cities that have completed our online self-Assessment for What Works Cities Certification. The What Works Cities Certification program, launched in 2017 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and led by Results for America, is the first-of-its-kind standard of excellence for data-driven, well-managed local government. Open to cities in North and South America with a population of at least 30,000, What Works Cities Certification welcomes cities at all points in their data journey. Take the Assessment, join our Community and lead with data!

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