Project Managers' Guide to Performance Measurement and Evaluation

3. WHAT IS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION?

Performance measurement is the ongoing, regular collection of information for monitoring how a program, policy or strategy is doing. It is a systematic way of mapping the evidence of the progress you are making towards your expected results.

Evaluation is a specific, in-depth way to gather and analyze information and draw conclusions about the performance of a policy, program or strategy. Evaluations may also be focussed at the project level.

There are two broad types of evaluations:

For more information on the federal approach to performance measurement and evaluation, refer to Treasury Board of Canada’s Guide for the Development of Results-based Management and Accountability Frameworks:www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/eval/pubs/RMAF-CGRR/rmafcgrr05_e.asp.