Work with organisations to improve evaluation standards

The Victorian Government is working with departments and funded organisations to improve evaluation standards and ensure organisations have the resources, time and expertise to evaluate programs effectively.

Funding was allocated for family violence services in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 State Budgets to meet the cost of evaluations, including action research.

Strengthening evaluation processes within organisations that receive government funding contributes to the broader uplift in monitoring and evaluation of family violence funded services and programs. Enabling funded organisations to undertake self-evaluation, or contribute to evaluation design and implementation, is crucial to building evidence and understanding of what works in preventing and responding to family violence and strengthens service design and delivery.

Victorian government departments and agencies have improved their support to funded agencies and organisations in collecting data or conducting evaluations either financially or through access to resources and tools (such as surveys). There has also been a focus on the development of Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks with agreed measures to support a more holistic understanding of the impacts of programs across the family violence sector.

Free from Violence, the Family Violence Outcomes Framework Measurement and Monitoring Implementation Strategy, alongside the Family Violence Reform Rolling Action Plan 2020-2023 outline the structure, activities and processes which contribute to the ongoing development of monitoring and evaluation capability within both government and funded organisations and agencies.

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