Evaluability assessment

An EA is a qualitative investigation employed before a programme is evaluated. Evaluability assessments (EAs) go further than merely providing information of whether a programme can be evaluated or not. They are used to describe the objectives, logic and activities of the programme with an aim to investigate its credibility, feasibility, sustainability and acceptability. EAs address the likelihood of the programme achieving its anticipated outcomes, the required changes needed for optimum management, whether an evaluation can improve the programme’s performance and to identify stakeholder interests in the evaluation and how the findings will be used. According to Jung and Schubert (1983) these specific aspects of a programme need to be address by an EA: