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• 1- Step 1. assess and build program and organizational readiness for utilization-focused evaluation
• 2- Step 2. assess and enhance evaluator readiness and competence to undertake a utilization-focused evaluation
• 3- Step 3. identify, organize, and engage primary intended users : the personal factor
• 4- Step 4. situation analysis conducted jointly with primary intended users
• 5- Step 5. identify and prioritize primary intended uses by determining priority purposes
• 6- Step 6. consider and build in process uses if and as appropriate
• 7- Step 7. focus priority evaluation questions
• 8- Step 8. check that fundamental areas for evaluation inquiry are being adequately addressed : implementation, outcomes, and attribution questions
• 9- Step 9. determine what intervention model or theory of change is being evaluated
• 10- Step 10. negotiate appropriate methods to generate credible findings that support intended use by intended users
• 11- Step 11. make sure intended users understand potential methods controversies and their implications
• 12- Step 12. simulate use of findings : evaluation's equivalent of a dress rehearsal
• 13- Step 13. gather data with ongoing attention to use
• 14- Step 14. organize and present the data for interpretation and use by primary intended users : analysis, interpretation, judgment, and recommendations
• 15- Step 15. prepare an evaluation report to facilitate use and disseminate significant findings to expand influence
• 16- Step 16. follow up with primary intended users to facilitate and enhance use
• 17- Step 17. metaevaluation of use : be accountable, learn, and improve.

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