Phase 4. Scaling Up
What you might see
- A community designed, owned and run shared measurement system, including indicators of progress and impact;
- A 'backbone' with appropriate resourcing (expertise, funds, etc.) supporting the learning, measurement and evaluation needs of the initiative;
- Measurement and learning efforts supporting the identification of new catalysts to maintain the momentum of the work;
- The process of continual learning getting smoother and faster;
- Efforts to scale parts or the whole of the initiative supported by evaluative thinking;
- The initiative ‘zooming out’ periodically to look at the community at a larger scale and to consider the role of new and potential partners.
What you can do
- Ensure that the Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework is delivered in line with the principles established earlier, refining them if/as required;
- Work with the communication effort to ensure measurement and learning is shared with all. This might include the development of a dashboard to visualise progress;
- Conduct evaluations to assess the performance and progress of specific projects and the initiative as a whole. This might include a focus on the effectiveness and fidelity of the initiative, the contribution of the initiative to system and community level change, and more;
- Continue to facilitate reflections on the community narrative from different perspectives. This might include conducting micro-community impact case studies or discrete research pieces;
- Adapt the MEL framework as new partners are added and greater alignment of policy, funding and program delivery is achieved.
Measurement Tools & Resources
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Clear Horizon
A paper by Mark Cabaj on evaluating scaling efforts.
Rubrics are a useful tool for assessing performance, these can be co-designed with the community.
More tools for evaluating complexity can be found here.
Logan Together’s 2018 Progress report is an example of the type of reporting that can be achieved through the measurement and learning effort.
This resource includes a six-step process for practitioners to understand and gather evidence of the contribution their work made to achieving observed outcomes.
This resource describes the theory and objectives of reflection workshops, and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting them, based on three stages of evaluative thinking: What happened? So what? Now what?
This resource provides a guide to using the Most Significant Change (MSC) method, together with an MSC story collection guide.
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