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Overview
Educational Assistance Awards facilitate the acquisition and exchange of program evaluation skills and knowledge by providing funds for participation in evaluation-related courses or workshops.
Benefits
These Awards provide up to $500 to help offset the following expenses:
Objectives
Educational Assistance Awards are intended to increase evaluation capacity by enabling formal training in evaluation skills, theory and practice. Enhancing evaluation capacity through training is one means to ultimately increase the quality of evaluation practice in society generally.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
Applications
Email your request for an application form to eaa@cesef.ca. Receipt of applications will be acknowledged. We are not accepting applications at this time. Please check back soon.
Review & Decision Process
Applications are peer-reviewed by a selection panel appointed by the Board of the CES Educational Fund.
Key criteria include: qualifications of the applicant in evaluation; goals for the educational activity; experience of the course or workshop leader; fit between the proposed training and the applicant’s experience; and access to other sources of funding. Priority will be given to those with limited access to funding.
Decisions by the Board of the CES Educational Fund will take into consideration the recommendations of the review panel and the availability of resources. All decisions are final.
Successful applicants will be required to sign a letter of acceptance.
Reporting
Recipients of the Awards must submit the report form provided upon completion of the course or workshop. The report covers: an assessment of the course or workshop; the extent to which educational goals were achieved; top three learnings; an explanation of how and when new knowledge or skills will be applied; and new perspectives and contacts developed as a result of the training experience.