Advocacy Toolbox:
Evaluating Policy and Legislation
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This page has resources from leading public health and evaluation organizations.
- Measuring advocacy and policy
- How to evaluate an advocacy plan
| Topic | Title | Type | Organization | Description |
| Measuring advocacy and policy | A Guide for Measuring Advocacy and Policy, 2007 | Guide | Anne E. Casey Foundation | This extensive guide from the Anne E. Casey Foundation provides grantmakers, non-profit organizations, and evaluators a framework for evaluating advocacy and policy efforts. It focuses on naming the potential outcomes of advocacy work and identifying appropriate evaluation designs to measure these outcomes. |
| Measuring policy | Performance Measurement for Public Health Policy, 2012 | Guide | American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Public Health Foundation (PHF) | This guide is for health departments involved in policy work and intended to help them measure and improve their policy activities. This tool provides a framework for health departments to measure their performance around policy and provides sample measures for each of the six categories of the framework: 1) Problem Identification & Definition, 2) Policy Analysis, 3) Policy Development & Adoption, 4) Education & Outreach, 5) Policy Implementation, and 6) Impact Evaluation |