Interested in conducting a program evaluation but not sure how or where to start? Curious about how you can tell if your program is having a positive impact on your participants? Needing to demonstrate program outcomes and results using rigorous program science?
PAN is pleased to announce an evaluation capacity- and skills-building initiative to facilitate and grow participatory and community-based evaluation work in organizations that address HIV, HCV and related issues in British Columbia. Thanks to funding from REACH 2.0, a select number of community organizations will have the opportunity to work with PAN’s evaluation and community-based research team on a small evaluation project. There are many things we can help with. For instance, we can help work with your team to develop and evaluation plan or logic model, design evaluation-related data collection tools (e.g. checklists to track interventions or referrals), support data collection for a focused evaluation project, or perhaps look at the best ways to share what you have learned from an evaluation. All the work needs to happen between December 2016 and February 2017.
For organizations interested in an opportunity to develop their internal evaluation capacity through a more intensive collaborative process to aimed at refining an evaluation idea and putting it into practice, REACH’s “Flipped Workshop” initiative will be providing coaching and other resources to support one evaluation project led by a team of two staff members from a community based organization in British Columbia from January to April 2017. Staff members will be asked to contribute 25-30 hours to the training and evaluation components of their projects. Please let us know in your application if your organization would like to be considered for the REACH Flipped Workshop initiative!
If you are interested in participating in either of these evaluation support opportunities, please click here to provide us with some information about your organization and potential project (please only provide organizational contact information). Please submit your short application no later than December 16. Decisions about support will be made on: 1) the feasibility of the project i.e. can it be completed by the end of February, 2) the proposal’s connection to PAN’s mandate to foster ethical, rigorous, thoughtful, and reflective evaluations of programs and projects that address HIV/AIDS, HCV and related issues in British Columbia, and 3) considerations about regional representation.
If you have questions please contact Heather Holroyd, PAN’s Evaluation and CBR Program Special Projects Contractor at: [email protected]