New Research & Evaluation Treehouse Resources, November 2023

While research and evaluation are different, they share many similarities, especially when thinking about participatory methods. We think of research and evaluation like two different trees with different origins, intertwined in methods and analysis, that separate again in what they can tell you and how their information is shared.

PAN’s Research and Evaluation department has put together a Treehouse to share resources that can be helpful for both evaluation and research. Read more about how PAN’s Treehouse came to be.

Visit the Treehouse to see a collection of Research and Evaluation Resources, or keep reading to see our newest additions.

Check out these new links, videos, tools and other resources!

	The Basics of Community-Based Research: Part 1 The first in a series of “CBR Basics”, this blog post shares some of the ‘what’ and ‘why’ about community based research.

	Balancing Rigor and Relevance in literature review: Development of Guiding Principles and Practices for People with Lived and Living Experience in Community Based Organizations Literature reviews are often an important step at the beginning of a project, but there are challenges that make them responsive to community. This blog post describes a unique approach that PHSA’s Collective Impact Network took to a literature review that

	Qualitative Coding Resources Visit this page for a host of resources about qualitative data analysis, including videos about qualitative coding, and links to helpful resources.

	Indigenizing Survey Methods This blog post shares learnings from the Making it Work Research Team and their work to create an Indigenous Realist Evaluation Survey to understand why, when, how, and for whom community based services work best.

	PAN’s HIV Housing Toolkit As part of the Positive Living Positive Homes Project, PAN created an online Housing Toolkit as a resource for people living with HIV. There are many helpful resources housed within the toolkit, and this blogpost helps highlight some of the most used.