Challenges of evidence and evaluation in partnership working

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Challenges of evidence and evaluation in
partnership working

• Steven Marwick
• Evaluation Support Scotland

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Evaluation Support Scotland

• We work with voluntary organisations and funders
• so that they can measure their impact,
• report on the difference they make
• and
• improve their services.
• www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk

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Government wants Scotland to be

• Healthier
• Wealthier
• Greener
• Meaner
• Sexier
• How will we know?

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What its about

• Understanding the difference made by voluntary
  and community health improvement and how to
  evidence it
• More information
• Addressing the challenges for evaluation and
  learning in community-led health
• www.healthscotland.com/documents/3113.aspx

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Monitoring information

• 75 page monitoring form
• Please tell us how many people you worked with
  aged 25-29 who live in postcode X2
• Number

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• NEED OUTCOMES
• (not postcodes) for people
• TRUST

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A Logic model

• A systematic and visual way to present how your
  project / organisation works
• Shows logic underpinning a plan
• Creates a pathway to enable measurement
• www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/article.asp?i
  d165

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Community Health Project
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Indicators matter
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Collecting information
Evaluation into day to day work
Day to day work into evaluation
Qualitative information the WHY and HOW of
change www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/articl
e.asp?id166
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Learning

• what works
• for whom
• in what circumstances
• and why

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What was Steven talking about?

• WHAT work out your outcomes, your theory and
  logic
• HOW build evaluation into practice and practice
  into evaluation, make it relevant
• WHY for learning what works for whom in what
  circumstances and why
• WHO together, sharing, trusting