PROGRAM EVALUATIONS
How do you know that your efforts are achieving the intended results? GDI has over 20 years of experience in evaluating programs, conferences, and workshops, all around the globe. We will help you maximize program effectiveness and meet grant and aid evaluation requirements through comprehensive mid-point monitoring and final evaluation. In addition, using guided interviews, focus groups and surveys, we can do pre-test and post-test measurements to identify critical impacts. We can gather reliable feedback from stakeholders, implementers, and clients on strengths and challenges that reside in any program. Our evaluations have led to significant improvements in deliverables, from fine-tuning of materials to major restructuring of programs.

Why Monitor and Evaluate?

SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS
Group Dimensions International has conducted top-flight focus groups and surveys for non-profit and government clients. From implementation of the World Bank's resettlement policy to the impact of hospital restructuring on nurses, we have examined complex issues with social science expertise. For this type of research, we use "triangulation" of methods, as appropriate, but especially focus groups, individual interviews, small surveys, and analysis of existing data.

NEEDS ASSESSMENTS
How do you know what clients and stakeholders need? What are their interests? What services and supports do they receive from other organizations? What services are falling between the cracks? GDI will carefully explore constituent needs so that you can target programs, messages, and materials for greatest effectiveness. A good needs assessment leads to realistic organizational priorities.

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION, OR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

• Heuristic evaluation
• Focus groups
• One-on-one interviews
• Cognitive testing
• Usability testing
• Market research
• Gap analysis
• Segmentation studies
• Customer satisfaction

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION, OR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

• Study Design & Protocol Development
• Survey Development & Validation
• Survey Administration, Data Analysis, and Reporting

Conducted by our team of well-trained and experienced Associates...

Examples...

The CIS Gender Mosaic: Baseline Data for the Twelve CIS Countries 1996-2008 (UNIFEM).

Fulbright Executive Directors Worldwide:

Needs Assessment, Program Structure, and Final Evaluation,

Canada-U.S. Educational Foundation.

Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Services for Patients in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, Office of HIV Planning, City of Philadelphia (funded in part by the CDC).

Evaluation of UNESCAP's program to support Asian and Pacific countries in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Minority Perceptions of Rhode Island's Court System, RI Supreme Court, Permanent Committee on Women and Minorities, "Solutions Project.

Improving America's Schools: A Needs Assessment, U.S. Department of Education.