Project planning and design

A needs assessment was undertaken to discuss how the evaluation would be useful to the key stakeholders and to inform the overall evaluation design.

Using the RUFDATA¹⁴ tool, the evaluation team met with the Policy Wāhanga and the Relationships and Information Wāhanga to discuss the direction and focus of the evaluation based on their respective needs and current work programmes.

¹⁴ Developed by Saunders (2000), RUFDATA is an abbreviation for the key questions asked of key stakeholders at the initial stages of the evaluation when drafting an evaluation plan. R stands for Reason for the evaluation, U for Use, F for Foci/Focus of the evaluation, D for Data or evidence of the evaluation, A for Audience of the evaluation, T for Timing, and A for Agency conducting the evaluation.