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# Tips for evaluators

## Questions to ask at the start of a new evaluation:

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What data exists that the evaluation team can draw on to augment or support the evaluation?
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What are the programme’s indicators of change – most importantly at both the output and outcome levels?
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What are the core evaluation questions that donors or programme implementers want to know?
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Does the programme have an appropriate theory of change that can be tested and understood through the lens of an evaluation?
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## Suggested evaluations questions for countering disinformation programs: 

Evaluations related to countering disinformation need to answer the question of whether programming is making a difference, and if so how, and why:

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What has changed?
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Has disinformation gone down?
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Have audiences “switched channels” or sought out better, higher quality information?
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Are participants of media and information literacy programs more equipped with critical thinking skills?
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How has programming contributed to disinformation’s corrosive effects on democracy?
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