Performance Reporting and Evaluation Tools
- Performance Reporting
- Articles and Reports on Performance Reporting
- Books on Performance Reporting
- Program Evaluation
- Articles and Reports
- Toolkits
Performance Reporting
In 2007, Manitoba committed to developing a performance reporting strategy. The following eight principles were developed through consultation with departments and major Crown agencies:
- The organization’s public purpose is explained.
- The organization’s priorities relate to overall government priorities.
- Each organizational priority has objectives and actions to achieve it.
- Measures are developed with outcomes in mind, focusing on a few critical aspects of performance.
- Financial and non-financial information are linked.
- The strategic context for the plan and reported results is discussed.
- Performance information looks forward and backward in time.
- Information is clear, relevant, credible and balanced.
Articles and Reports on Performance Reporting
- Manitoba government’s eight performance reporting principles
(Manitoba Government 2008, 15 pages) (PDF) - Assessing performance: evaluation practices & perspectives in Canada’s voluntary sector
(Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development, 2003, 66 pages) (PDF) - Building a common outcome framework to measure nonprofit performance
(Centre for Nonprofits and Philanthropy, 2006, 17 pages) (PDF) - Let's get fit! Improving operational performance
(Charity Village, 2007)
Books on Performance Reporting
- Field guide to consulting and organizational development with nonprofits: a collaborative and systems approach to performance, change and learning, (Authenticity Consulting, 2005)
- Handbook of practical program evaluation, 2nd Edition (Jossey-Bass, 2004)
Copies available through inter-library loan or Publisher’s web site. - Measuring performance in public and nonprofit organizations (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Copies available through inter-library loan or Publisher’s web site. - Using performance measurement to improve public and nonprofit programs (Kathryn E. Newcomer, editor. Jossey-Bass, 1997, Series : New directions for evaluation, No. 75
Copies available through inter-library loan or Publisher’s web site.
Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is a process of gathering and analyzing information in order to assess the effectiveness of a program, to consider the need for change or to be accountable to organizational funders, users or members.
Articles and Reports
- Basic guide to outcomes-based evaluation for non-profit organizations with very limited resources
(Carter McNamara, 1997–2008) - Evaluating community projects : a practical guide
(Marilyn Taylor, Derrick Purdue, Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde, 2005, 12 pages) (PDF) - Project evaluation guide for nonprofit organizations: fundamental methods and steps for conducting project evaluation
(Imagine Canada, 2006, 98 pages) (PDF)
Toolkits
The Evaluation Toolkit has been designed as a step-by-step tutorial through the process of project evaluation. The toolkit covers evaluation, logic models and how to track and report on project results. Case studies are included.
