Performance Reporting and Evaluation Tools
- Performance Reporting
- Articles and Reports on Performance Reporting
- Books on Performance Reporting
- Program Evaluation
- Articles and Reports
Performance Reporting
In 2007, Manitoba committed to developing a performance reporting strategy. The following eight principles were developed through consultation with departments and major Crown agencies:
- The organization’s public purpose is explained.
- The organization’s priorities relate to overall government priorities.
- Each organizational priority has objectives and actions to achieve it.
- Measures are developed with outcomes in mind, focusing on a few critical aspects of performance.
- Financial and non-financial information are linked.
- The strategic context for the plan and reported results is discussed.
- Performance information looks forward and backward in time.
- Information is clear, relevant, credible and balanced.
Articles and Reports on Performance Reporting
- Manitoba government’s eight performance reporting principles (PDF)
(Manitoba Government 2008, 15 pages) - Assessing performance: evaluation practices & perspectives in Canada’s voluntary sector (PDF)
(Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development, 2003, 66 pages) - Building a Common Outcome Framework To Measure Nonprofit Performance (PDF)
(Centre for Nonprofits and Philanthropy, 2007, 17 pages)
Books on Performance Reporting
- Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits: A Collaborative and Systems Approach to Performance, Change and Learning, (Authenticity Consulting, 2005)
- Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2015)
Copies available through Legislative Library loan or Jossey-Bass publishing. - Measuring performance in public and nonprofit organizations (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Copies available through Legislative Library loan or Jossey-Bass publishing.
Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is a process of gathering and analyzing information in order to assess the effectiveness of a program, to consider the need for change or to be accountable to organizational funders, users or members.
Articles and Reports
- Evaluating community projects : a practical guide (PDF)
(Marilyn Taylor, Derrick Purdue, Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde, 2005, 12 pages) - Project evaluation guide for nonprofit organizations: fundamental methods and steps for conducting project evaluation (PDF)
(Imagine Canada, 2006, 98 pages)
