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EVALUATE IMPACT EVALUATION GUIDE 2 Evaluation Impact Evaluation Guide Brief Description of the Guide This paper provides an analysis of the CSIRO impact evaluation guide. The CSIRO impact evaluation guide provides firm evidence to support the consequences of CSIRO’s research as well as innovation activities to the society, economy, and environment (CSIRO, 2015). CSIRO's main goal is to deliver a positive impact on the people of Australia. Therefore, the organization the impact evaluation guide to determine whether its goal is fulfilled. Evidenced acquired from the CSIRO impact evaluation guide is presented to the important stakeholders including government, CSIRO’s leadership, CSIRO’s researchers and business development managers, and the Australian people. The reason for providing the stakeholders with the evidence is to enhance accountability and utility of resources involving the specific audiences (Morgan, 2014). To achieve this purpose, the CSIRO impact evaluation guide compares the strength of evidence generated and the evaluation’s credibility. The impact evaluation guide offers a common framework that ensures results generated from the evaluations are suit each business objects and time units. Precisely, the guide directs CSIRO staff, researchers, and external support in addressing critical questions in a consistent way and to choose appropriate methods as well as resources for evaluating the CSIRO research. The evaluation guide uses several evaluation principles to ensure its consistency and reliability. Use of the Guide to Improve Impact Evaluation Practice In improving impact evaluation practice, the guide comprises of six major steps that are followed in appraising the impact. The decisions and information generated in the first steps act as inputs to the following steps throughout the impact evaluation process (White & Raitzer,

EVALUATE IMPACT EVALUATION GUIDE 3 2017). The first process involves determining the aim of the impact evaluation and the targeted audience. This entails establishing what the evaluation process seeks to find and how the information acquired in the evaluation guide is applied. Step one of the CSIRO’s impact evaluation guide also establishes the evaluation units, data collected, and methodology used to gather relevant data for examining the strength of the impact (CSIRO, 2015). In step two, the impacts to be evaluated are identified. The identified impacts are then associated with CSIRO’s impacts using clear pathways. In the CSIRO impact evaluation guide, the impacts are grouped into economic, social, and environmental impacts. Importantly, the pathways are used to connect the impacts to the research and innovation processes undertaken in relation to a unit of evaluation. This involves conducting comprehensive background research to ascertain factual information gathered in the evaluation process. After identifying the impacts and the pathways that connected them to the CSIRO research, step three is undertaken to classify the impacts determined in step two (Edwards, Stickney, Milat, Campbell & Thackway, 2017). Classification of the impacts is based on the outcomes that would have been recorded if CSIRO was not involved, contributions provided by other organizations, and the expected impacts that are yet to occur. Having established and classified the impacts, the proceeding step encompasses evaluating the impacts. This step focuses on the types of impacts and the effects subjected to users. To improve impact evaluation practice, this step is used to select evaluation approaches, estimate costs incurred by key stakeholders, evaluate the economic effects on non-users as well as the distributional consequences on its users (CSIRO, 2015). In addition, discounting is performed to assess the costs and benefits of each activity. Documenting the results is done to be used in the proceeding stage. Step five of the guide is used to aggregate and compare the impacts across different work programs. This is

EVALUATE IMPACT EVALUATION GUIDE 4 because different work programs yield multiple impacts that are diversified. In the final step of using the guide, sensitivity analysis is performed to improve credibility on the findings. By following the six steps contained in the CSIRO guide, the impact evaluation is successfully conducted to the highest degree possible.

EVALUATE IMPACT EVALUATION GUIDE 5 References White, H., & Raitzer, D. A. (2017). Impact evaluation of development interventions: A practical guide. Asian Development Bank. CSIRO. (2015). Impact Evaluation Guide: Strategy, Market Vision and Innovation. Morgan, B. (2014). Income for the outcome. Nature, 511(7510), S72. Edwards, B., Stickney, B., Milat, A., Campbell, D., & Thackway, S. (2017). Building research and evaluation capacity in population health: the NSW Health approach. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 27(3), 264-267....