Rapid Evaluation

I-TECH Technical Implementation Guide

Date:  12/2008

Description

I-TECH's Technical Implementation Guides are a series of practical and instructional papers designed to support staff and partners in their efforts to create and maintain quality programs worldwide. This guide describes rapid evaluation, an intensive, team-based, program-focused investigation that is otherwise known as "rapid assessment," "participatory action research (PAR)," "rapid assessment process (RAP)," and "rapid assessment, research, and evaluation (RARE)." The short document gives a summary of the history and the theoretical foundations of the method, synthesizes the steps involved in rapid assessment into 5 elements, and details some of its advantages and disadvantages.

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International Training and Education Center on Health

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Resource Format PDF Resource Type Research and evaluation tool Technical Areas Monitoring and Evaluation, Human Capacity Development, Quality Assurance Target Audience Program planners, Trainers, Researchers, Program managers, Teachers / Educators Language English