Books 

• Burt, M.R., et al (1997). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Evaluation Guidebook: Projects Funded by S.T.O.P. Formula Grants under the Violence Against Women Act. Available at The Urban Institute [1]
  Describes the creation of a logic model for use in evaluation, including an example based on a shelter program for domestic violence victims
• Fetterman, D.M., Kaftarian, S.J. & Wandersman, A. (Eds). (1996). Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and tools for self-assessment and accountability. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks. Available at https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0761900241 [2]
• Harrel, A. et al (undated). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Evaluation Strategies for Human Services Programs. Available at http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=306619 [3]
  A description of the usefulness of the logic model in understanding links between program goals and implementation in the interpretation of evaluation findings.

Evaluation Reports

• Potvin, Dr. Louise. (June 2005) Effectiveness or Equity? Conflicting values for public health program evaluation. This audio and PowerPoint presentation is now available on Centre for Health Promotion Studies Web site [4].
• Catalano, R.F., Berglund, M.L., Ryan, J.A.M., Lonczak, H.C., & Hawkins, J.D. (1998). Positive youth development in the United States: Research findings on evaluations of positive youth development programs. A report to United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and National Institute for Child Health and Human Development by Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
• Best practices: a report of the review of Health Authorities Serves as a mechanism to promote continuous improvement through the exchange across Health Authorities of the initiatives, strategies and specific services that are working well. Describes the best practices process and methodology, and highlights of governance, management and delivery.
• Bridging the gap. The role of monitoring and evaluation in Evidence-based policy making [5]. UNICEF
  January 2008.
  This publication offers a number of strong contributions from senior officers in institutions dealing with Evidence-based policy making. These institutions are national and local governments, UNICEF, the World Bank and the International Development Evaluation Association. It tries to bring together the vision and lessons learned from different stakeholders on the strategic role of monitoring and evaluation in evidence-based policy making. These stakeholders are policy-makers, in their role of users of evidence, and researchers and evaluators, in their role of suppliers of evidence.
• Good Practice Guide Learning Lessons from post-project Evaluation [6](* in pdf format) This report from the UK Department of Health describes what is evaluation, how does evaluation differ from monitoring, what is the policy requirement for evaluation, why undertake evaluation, what are the pre-requisites for successful evaluation, the stages of evaluation, what are the key issues to be evaluated at each of the four stages, who should undertake the evaluation, how to evaluate: some technical considerations.
• Community action resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: evaluating [7]Provides a five-step program evaluation model. Introduces and defines program evaluation, why and how to evaluate, and the human aspects of evaluation. Appendices include sample evaluation forms. Link requires PDF reader.
• Consultation services of THCU [8]Outlines the consultation services of THCU which are offered free of charge to health promotion groups in Ontario. Consultation service areas include program planning, policy changes, health communication, and the evaluation of health promotion programs.
• Crime prevention for First Nations communities: self evaluation manual [9] Provides guidance in evaluating crime prevention programs in First Nations communities.
• Cultural competency assessment tool [10]Seeks to enhance services and programs to ethnocultural communities in the Vancouver area by assisting community-based agencies to become more culturally competent. Presents tools to assess an organization's cultural ability and to develop an action plan for improvement.
• Evaluating community-based crime prevention projects: a checklist of approaches and options Outlines how to conduct an evaluation of crime prevention projects and social development programs. Describes how to select programs for evaluation, analyze program operations and identify program costs. Includes a checklist to help community groups evaluate how effective their projects are. www.prevention.gc.ca/en/library/publications/general/step/index.html [11]
• Evaluating health promotion programs Presents steps for designing, measuring and analyzing an evaluation of health promotion programs. Includes definitions of program evaluation, a generic logic model for understanding health promotion, and a comprehensive bibliography. Link requires PDF reader. www.thcu.ca/infoandresources/planning.htm [12]
• Evaluation of a high school Quit and Win smoking cessation program Describes a report evaluating a pilot program in smoking prevention, smoking cessation and tobacco awareness which was tested in four Ottawa-Carleton high schools. Includes ordering information. www.medicine.uottawa.ca/epid/chru/m934.htm [13]
• Evaluation tools: technical report #3A and 3B [14] Technical Report 3A [15]Technical Report 3B [16]Comprises one in a series of four technical reports on the Program's heart health promotion strategies and programs within several Saskatchewan communities. Details a collection of evaluation instruments used by the Program.
• Working Well with Evaluation Consultants: A Guide. (1999) [17]Government of Northwest Territories. This guide outlines steps you can take to ensure an effective partnership and a useful and credible product. In this context, we are talking about evaluation of programs and services your organization provides. This means evaluation as used for getting feedback, data and information about your organization and its activities. Program evaluation gives you useful information to help decide what areas of your program work, and what areas need improvement.
• Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project (VSERP) [18]VSERP now offers an extensive variety of publications, links and other tools related to evaluation, and has recently added research papers produced by the Project and its partner organizations.