The national Child and Family Agency in Ireland, in 2015, undertook an ambitious three-year programme of work to embed a child’s right to be heard in its culture and operations. In parallel to its implementation, the authors of this paper were tasked with evaluating to what extent this intended outcome, that a child’s right to be heard was embedded in the government agency’s culture and operations, was achieved. The overarching evaluation design was a mixed methods baseline and follow up study. This paper reports on the development and implementation of the evaluation framework guiding the study. The framework comprised seven structural and process indicators adapted from the Council of Europe Child Participation Assessment Tool and five outcome indicators informed by the Lundy Model of participation. As well as reporting on the evaluation process, the paper critiques the value of the framework, its benefits, challenges and the pitfalls along the way to inform future evaluations.

爱尔兰国家儿童和家庭机构于 2015 年开展了一项雄心勃勃的三年工作计划，将儿童发表意见的权利纳入其文化和业务中。在实施的同时，本文的作者的任务是评估在多大程度上实现了这一预期结果，即儿童发表意见的权利已嵌入政府机构的文化和运作中。总体评估设计是混合方法基线和后续研究。本文报告了指导研究的评估框架的制定和实施。该框架包括改编自欧洲委员会儿童参与评估工具的七个结构和过程指标和五个由伦迪参与模型提供信息的结果指标。除了报告评估过程，