Whether the Framework process was effective and how stakeholder involvement contributed to the outcome. What lessons can be learned to guide future risk management decisions or to improve the decision-making process. A good risk management decision can be shown to have a significant impact on the risks of concern. Monitoring health indicies can be one method of evaluating whether risk management has been successful. Tools for evaluation include environmental and health monitoring, research, disease surveillance, analyses of costs and benefits, and discussions with stakeholders.
Evaluation is critical to accountability and to ensure wise use of scarce resources.
Too often, past risk management actions have had little or no evaluation or follow-up after implementation, even when evaluation was mandated. Planning for Evaluation Plans for evaluation should be built into the overall implementation plan to specify when evaluation will be conducted, who will conduct it, and what will be evaluated. In most situations, periodic evaluation will be important. The focus of evaluation may shift with the stage of implementation, because it often may take some time before the full impact of risk reduction can be measured. Evaluation might first focus more on progress and success in implementing the risk management plan.