Four Tools for Assessing Grantee Contribution to Advocacy Efforts
A brief from the Center for Evaluation Innovation for funders and evaluators who back advocacy. Policy wins usually come from many actors, so it is hard to say what one grantee added. The brief gives 4 tools for judging a single grantee's contribution to a shared advocacy effort. Funders can use the tools at the start of a grantee relationship to agree expectations, or at the end of a grant to review results.
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Tanya Beer, Julia Coffman (2015). Four Tools for Assessing Grantee Contribution to Advocacy Efforts. Center for Evaluation Innovation. https://evaluationinnovation.org/?p=390
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