Select a section: What does it mean to evaluate? Why Evaluate? Evaluating Your Partnership General Intervention Evaluation Overview Needs Assessment Intervention Evaluation Outcome Evaluation Sharing Your Work Once the evaluation questions and process are developed, you and your partners will have identified what information should be shared as well as who will receive the information.

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Some of the information will be shared among you and your partners. This information may include strategies such as improving or changing your goals, objectives or action plan; addressing barriers or conflicts within the partnership; and rallying more support for the intervention. Information shared between partners should remain confidential. All partners should agree to keep this type of information within the partnership to avoid violating the trust and participation of other members.

Most of the information will be shared with the community and other groups who may be engaged in similar types of work. It is very helpful when groups share the lessons they have learned from engaging in this type of work with others.

There are a variety of ways that you can share information with the community and with others interested in increasing physical activity in their communities, including:

• Newsletters
• Community forums
• Internet (websites, chat rooms)
• Publications in local newspapers, journals, magazines or reports
• Conferences (local, state and national)
• Local publicity networks (libraries, schools, colleges or universities, parks or recreation centers, faith-based organizations, small businesses and word-of-mouth)
• Distribution of fliers door-to-door, at meetings, at tables set up at busy places (e.g. supermarket, sidewalks), or by working with other leaders