Summary
This guide looks at the basic techniques used to monitor and evaluate community safety projects and initiatives. By the time you complete this guide, you will be able to: define evaluation; understand the relationship between evaluation and the problem-oriented approach; explain why community safety work needs to be evaluated; describe different types of evaluation; understand the process for evaluating a project; evaluate a community safety project; take account of some of the issues that you need to consider when planning an evaluation; identify skills and knowledge that you can use in your own work.