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There are seven key clusters of tasks in the Rainbow framework

1. Manage an evaluation or evaluation system –Decide how the evaluation or the M&E system will be managed, including clarifying stakeholders, roles and decision-making processes, and ensure processes for these are transparent and well-managed.
2. Define what is to be evaluated – Develop a description (or access an existing version) of what is to be evaluated and how it is understood to work.
3. Frame the boundaries for an evaluation – Set the parameters of the evaluation—its purposes, key evaluation questions and the criteria and standards to be used.
4. Describe activities, outcomes, impacts and context – Collect and retrieve data to answer descriptive questions such as what has happened in terms of the activities of the project, program, or policy, the various results it has had, and the context in which it has been implemented.
5. Understand causes of outcomes and impacts – Impact evaluation, which focuses on understanding the long-term results from interventions (projects, programs, policies, networks and organizations), always includes attention to understanding causes.
6. Synthesize data from one or more evaluations – Bringing together data into an overall conclusion and judgement is important for individual evaluations and also when summarizing evidence from multiple evaluations.
7. Report and Support Use of Findings – Besides the primary intended users (identified as part of framing the evaluation), your findings can be communicated to others for different reasons. For example, lessons learned from the evaluation can be helpful to other evaluators or project staff working in the same field; or it may be worthwhile remolding some of the findings into articles or stories to attract wider attention to an organizations’ work, or to spread news about a particular situation.

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