Abstract:
A Guide for Performance Evaluation Process for Internationally Funded
Community Development Projects in Sri Lanka
In the current world, the development efforts are more practised by Community
Development (CD) projects to enhance the human living condition while fulfilling the
required gaps in all aspects of living among them. Due to the unique nature of CD projects
and their intangible, less visible and qualitative objectives raise a special challenge when
managing the implementation process as well as the performance evaluation process. CD
projects concern the soft issues in the human society; therefore, the performance evaluation
is affected by several impact areas. Thus, this research was aimed at developing a guide for
conducting a performance evaluation process for CD projects implemented by Non-
Government Organisations (NGOs) in Sri Lanka to streamline the process.
As identified in literature review survey, four major impact areas and five major stages of
performance evaluation process were identified. Five CD projects were selected as case
studies and the interviews are conducted as the mode of data collection.
The research has identified the existing strategies applied by NGOs to performance
evaluations and strategies to prevent the impacts areas. Accordingly, the research has
developed a guide with proposed strategies for five major stages; evaluation possibility of
project works, creating the evaluation plan, implementing the evaluation plan, analysing and
interpreting data and finally, communicating the evaluation results.