9Proactive Evaluation
This chapter outlines the rationale and Approaches to evaluation designed to inform front-end decision-making about the structure and content of policies and programs. There are two major situations to which this Form of evaluation is logically applied. The first is in a ‘nothing to something’ situation where the aim of the evaluation is to provide findings to aid decision-making about a new program, one being developed from scratch. In the second, a program exists but there is a need for a major review, with the likelihood that this existing program will be altered radically or even replaced by a new and more appropriate one.
Because, in both instances, these evaluations provide information in order to assist decisions ...
