Developing and Implementing an Effective Evaluation Maturity Model

For evaluation to deliver on its promise, organisations need to strengthen their evaluation maturity. Evaluation maturity models provide a roadmap for improving evaluation capability and culture within an organisation. These models typically consist of criteria for success and performance levels that guide understanding and action about the planning, conduct and use of evaluation.
However, there is no one-size fits all approach to developing and implementing evaluation maturity models. There are also many challenges that can prevent maturity models from getting off the ground or being applied.
In this session participants will be guided through a practical example that includes:
I. a quick summary of the international capacity building/diagnostic literature
II. an overview of the importance of evaluation maturity and how it relates to the Department of Finance’s new evaluation guidance
III. a presentation of a maturity model and discussion of how it could be used to strengthen evaluation capacity
IV. an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share their own experiences.
Benefits to participants include learning about evaluation maturity models, establishing connections with others working on maturity models, and sharing and advancing knowledge in the evaluation community about how maturity models might support organisational capacity to do and use evaluation.
Jade Maloney is a partner and Managing Director of ARTD Consultants, while Brad Astbury is Associate Professor in Health Systems Evaluation at the University of Melbourne. Duncan Rintoul is the Director of Rooftop Social consultancy, and Scott Bayley manages his own Canberra-based evaluation consultancy. All four presenters are highly proficient evaluation consultants with considerable experience in working with public sector agencies to strengthen evaluation capacities.
This free event was organised by the AES Canberra Regional Network