Part III Human rights education in practice 8.3. REPORTING THE EVALUATION OUTCOMES Each evaluation is unique in that it tells the story of a specific activity, undertaken with specific people, in a specific context. OHCHR/Equitas Handbook The final step of an evaluation process is to communicate the results. Who the results are to be communicated to and how they are communicated will vary according to the nature and purpose of the human rights education activity. In any event, evaluation results should be reported to those who have participated in the evaluation. Evaluation outcomes may be documented in a number of ways, such as data collection, tables, graphs, videos, newsletters, press releases, portfolios, photos and graphics. Creative methods, such as photography, art, music and drama, can also be very powerful. The most common means for communicating the results of an evaluation is through a written report. It may also be appropriate to have a mixed method, where an evaluation reported to a community may be in a creative form and involve members of that community, while the evaluation to a funder may be in the form of a written report. Report writing enables you to tell the story of a training session to different audiences and stakeholders. By organizing and interpreting the data that are collected, you make the results of your work accessible to others, enabling different people to learn from your experiences, both negative and positive. Writing an evaluation report is an opportunity to highlight the results achieved by your human rights training and to articulate any contributions you are making to broader social change.138 When recording the success of an activity, the focus should be on documenting the outcomes rather than the outputs of the activity. It is, of course, useful to acknowledge the outputs; that is, the activity itself, how many participants were involved, how many meetings were held, how many organizations were involved in a network or how many website “hits” were received. Implementing an activity is not the same as achieving results from the activity. It is important to know whether the activity has achieved the outcomes that were set and whether it has had a successful impact on the human rights situation. Reporting on the effectiveness of an activity should focus on documenting the results rather than the amount of activity. The Logic Model will have developed the results indicators. It is against these that the outcomes of the activity are reported. Activity Outputs Outcomes Designing and distributing information pamphlets about how to contribute to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process [No.] pamphlets distributed [No.] people/organizations who contributed to the UPR process as a result of reading the pamphlet Running awareness training workshops on the UPR process [No.] workshops [No.] people reporting an increased awareness of the UPR process as a result of taking part in the workshop Running education events on the UPR process [No.] events [No.] participants in events [No.] people/communities/groups who have scoped their human rights issues and contributed these to the UPR process as a result of the education events Using networks to gain support for engaging in the UPR process [No.] people/ organizations communicated with [No.] people/organizations who contribute to the UPR process as a result of being contacted through the network 138 [No.] participants in workshops Evaluating Human Rights Training Activities: A Handbook for Human Rights Educators; 2011; p. 116. Chapter 8: Evaluating human rights education | 79