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Appendix A: Statement of Task
Pages 117-118

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... The workshop will be planned by an appointed, international planning committee and take place in Washington, DC; London, UK; Geneva, Switzerland; or South Africa. The participants will include individuals involved with the execution of the previously mentioned evaluations, representatives of the agencies that commissioned the evaluations, experts in a range of evaluation methods, and diverse users of the published evaluations.
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...   2. Issues in program evaluation design, including determination of appropriate evaluation questions to be addressed with appropriately matched methods; prospective and retrospective approaches; longi tudinal versus cross-sectional versus comparison approaches; and purposeful sampling to maximize feasibility and representativeness.
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