Build Measurement In Before the Program Becomes Hard to Understand
Build questions and learning priorities into a new service while its design can still change.
Open the guide ↗Field by Prova
Practical guidance for the decision in front of you.
Field turns recurring program, measurement, evaluation, and funding questions into guides that can be read, saved, printed, discussed, and used. Begin with a guide; know when the actual decision needs more than a guide.
The current guides are free to read, save, print, and use. If a guide is not enough, Prova can help your team apply it to a real decision.
Current guides
Browse by the decision the guide is meant to help.
Five guides are available now. New guides will be added as they are ready.
5 guides
Choosing Measures That Fit the Work
Choose a small, coherent set of measures that fits how the program operates and the decisions it serves.
Open the guide ↗How Much Evidence Is Enough?
Decide how much support a particular decision requires before asking for more analysis or measurement.
Open the guide ↗What You Need to Know Before You Expand
Test whether a promising pilot is ready to expand and which population, staffing, coverage, and cost conditions must survive.
Open the guide ↗How to Learn From a Program That Did Not Work as Hoped
Separate implementation, design, and assumption problems before choosing whether to continue, redesign, or stop.
Open the guide ↗Know when a guide is enough
A guide can help your team ask better questions. It cannot determine whether the same answer applies to your organization.
Adapt each guide to your organization, the people affected, the information available, and any legal requirements. If an important decision depends on the answer, Prova should review the actual materials with you.
How Field can support work
Start with a free guide. Use it with your team. Bring Prova in when the answer will shape an important decision.
Use a guide
Free public guides
Choose a Field guide for a question your team recognizes. Read, save, print, and use it in your organization.
Work through it together
Team workshops and tools
Use team pathways, worksheets, discussion decks, facilitator notes, and briefings as they become available.
Apply it to your decision
Work with Prova
Bring Prova the decision and the information your team already has when a general guide is not enough.
A growing library
New Field guides will be released regularly.
Each guide is reviewed for accuracy, clarity, and practical use before publication.
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Some questions need more than a guide.
If a program, funding, or institutional decision depends on what the available evidence can support, bring the decision to Prova. No client files are uploaded through the public site.
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