The Challenge of Assessing Advocacy:

Strategies for a Prospective Approach to Evaluating Policy Change and Advocacy

October 2005

Researched and written by:
Kendall Guthrie, Justin Louie, Tom David
and Catherine Crystal Foster
Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.

This paper presents a recommended approach to policy change evaluation. The analysis and proposed strategies addressed here should prove useful to a variety of evaluators and policy analysts with an interest in advocacy and policy change. The paper is designed to outline an approach to policy change evaluation grounded in the experience of experts.