Lesson Learned:

Participatory data analysis is worth the effort and has the potential for several benefits:

  • Keeping people “in the know” about program data
  • Building rapport and trust among stakeholders
  • Engaging stakeholder in committing to program improvement and results
  • Being able to tell a more complete story of the program

But perhaps most important of all, a participatory process allows stakeholders to offer up their insights, perspectives, and understanding, supplying critical context to the data.

Rad Resources:

Fortunately, several evaluators and others have generously offered resources to help make your participatory sessions interactive and fun. Some are more suited to in-person meetings, but could be adapted with a little ingenuity. Others can be used to engage people in all kinds of meetings or presentations.

Cool Tricks:

Especially now, when many of our meetings are still taking place online, don’t forget to use features built right into your video conferencing software:

  • Chat box
  • Annotation
  • White Board
  • Polling

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