The stakeholder analysis precedes the main efforts to engage stakeholders - identify interests, powers, interrelationships and various roles for a well-designed evaluation to serves its intended purposes. How do you plan a potentially successful evaluation? Please explain more. Dont like your expalnation on planning successful evaluation. what about data collection? Can this be summarize? Planning an evaluation requires selecting the measures that should be used, an evaluation design, and the methods of data collection and data analysis that will best meet information needs (Handbook). Must identify what clients need to know is important for evaluation planning, A design matrix is very important in selecting the questions. Evaluation designs affect where and how data will be collected. The Handbook provides many tables (1.1) about matching the designs and data collection to the evaluation questions. Data collection is important to help evaluators obtain the relevant information efficiently. Data analysis forces evaluators to clarify how each data element will be used and lays out the relevant questions for the evaluation.

Please explain in steps how stakeholder analysis is perform? Your definition is not clear. ANOTHER EXAMPLE. PLEASE SUMMARIZE stakeholder analysis is the process of identifying the individuals or groups that are likely to affect or be affected by a proposed action, and sorting them according to their impact on the action and the impact the action will have on them. The basic stakeholder identification and analysis includes selecting the participants which can be either large or small. It should be people who have been involved in the program. There are four steps: 1. evaluator initiates the process by listing potential stakeholders, 2. evaluator reviews the results and a group is assembled and they are asked to brainstorm and think about who is not at the meetings and should be. 3. full group is assembled and make sure everyone is on the same page. 4. after the full group has met then finalize who has some role to play in the evaluation effort. A purpose network diagram needs to be created as well to indicate the various reasons for this evaluation.