CDC Program Evaluation Framework Action Guide [2026]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Office of Policy, Performance, and Evaluation
• Description:
  The Program Evaluation Framework Action Guide serves as a comprehensive resource to assist new or early career evaluators with applying the CDC Program Evaluation Framework across a range of programs and settings. This Action Guide acts as a complement to the CDC Program Evaluation Framework, 2024 and serves as a how-to guide for planning, designing, and implementing evaluations in a practical way. A key theme across effective evaluation planning and implementation is the integration of the crosscutting actions and evaluation standards across all steps of the framework. To ensure that evidence is actionable for decision-making and supports continuous program improvement, the cross-cutting actions and evaluation standards are designed to improve the quality of evaluations by guiding decisions throughout each step of this process
  
  The following foundational objectives are covered in this Action Guide: • Defining program evaluation, its importance, and the types of program evaluation; • Distinguishing program evaluation from other related areas such as surveillance, research, and program monitoring; • Defining cross-cutting actions and evaluation standards; • Understanding how to apply evaluation standards and integrate cross-cutting actions from the CDC Program Evaluation Framework into your program evaluation approaches; and, • Identifying the approach and practical application(s) of the evaluation framework
  
  
• Subjects:
  Guidelines Program Evaluation Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handbook
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  CDC and ATSDR Budget Documents
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/256296/cdc_256296_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.20 MB ]