About Cross-Cutting Actions

Overview

Engage Collaboratively

Evaluators can facilitate co-ownership of the program evaluation with interest holders. By doing so, the evaluator can increase the validity of the evaluation findings and improve the likelihood that results are used by interest holders. This collaboration starts at the beginning of the evaluation planning process and continues into the implementation and interpretation phases.

Advance Equity

Health equity is defined as the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to obtain their highest levels of health1. Evaluators can help advance equity and eliminate health inequities in many ways:

• By using collaborative and equitable evaluation approaches to create environments where everyone is respected and heard.
• By considering the effects of potential decisions and their impact on the advancement of equity throughout each step of the framework and when applying the standards.
• By proceeding with cultural responsiveness and recognition of shared experiences to integrate the uniqueness of each context into the design and implementation of an evaluation.
• By conducting evaluations that uncover factors perpetuating health inequities.

Learn from and Use Insights

Evaluators also serve as facilitators for continuous learning, use of findings, and improvement through evaluation. Successful evaluators build relationships, cultivate trust, and model the way for interest holders to see value and utility in evaluation insights.

The Program Evaluation Framework provides you with more information on how to integrate these cross-cutting actions into your program evaluation approaches.