A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy

As more foundations and non-profits have engaged in advocacy and policy work to addresspublic issues and effect social change, there is a growing desire to gauge the impact ofinvestments in this area. How to evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy and policy work is an emerging question of interest within the philanthropic and non-profit audiences.

Policy evaluation does not yet have a consistent language or the commonly accepted standards of practice that have developed alongside program evaluation over the past two decades. Further, only a small handful of examples exist to illustrate how evaluation of advocacy and policy work has been undertaken in the real world. This guide offers a wide range of approaches to evaluation that are highly accessible and practical.