EXCLUSIVE INVITATION FOR EDA-MEMBERS ONLY

Economic Development Australia (EDA) is delighted to invite you to the national launch of the EDA Evaluation and Measurement Toolkit for Economic Development.

Economic development professionals are increasingly required to track and report on metrics related to their economic development work.

EDA Evaluation and Measurement Toolkit is a user-friendly resource, created for EDA by Pracsys to support Australian economic development professionals track, measure and report outcomes for any economic development project, regardless of scale, size and budget.

The EDA Evaluation and measurement toolkit will help you to:

• Clarify the objectives of an ED program or project
• Identify the resources required for your project
• Track progress and success
• Illustrate outputs related to your project
• Illustrate the value of your activities
• Clarify external factors and influences
• Track and communicate the impact of your work

The launch will happen over two virtual events:

1. Launch and introduction | March 3 2021, 12pm-1.30pm (90 mins)

This session will introduce the toolkit, providing background into how and why the framework was developed. Following the session, attendees will be provided with exclusive access to the toolkit and the user guide and will be invited to trial the resource, using live examples and report back.

2. Toolkit training workshop | March 24 2021, 12pm-1.30pm (90 mins)

This session will provide comprehensive training in how to use the toolkit for a variety of projects, how to get the most out of the resource and how to incorporate the logic model in your economic development reporting.

>> Click here to register for the training workshop

Acknowledgements

The EDA Evaluation and measurement toolkit brings together the knowledge and experience of leading economic development practitioners from Australia and around the world. EDA would like to acknowledge the Business, Employment, and Economic Development Department of the Province of British Columbia for providing the inspiration for the approach used in this toolkit. We are grateful for their collegial support, generosity in sharing their experience and encouragement. This toolkit would not be possible without the valuable input of the EDA National Evaluation Working Group and the knowledge and skills of Lucy Heales and the whole Pracsys team, who developed the toolkit and this supporting document.  Pracsys is a multi-disciplinary urban economics and strategy consulting firm based in Western Australia.