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Who benefits from your intervention?
Which outcomes do your impact recipients experience?
Who can confirm whether the outcomes have been achieved?
Which questions tell you the extent to which each outcome has been achieved?
When will those questions be asked and observations made?
Where will the answers and observations be stored?
How, When and for Whom do you want to report on the results?
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1. Who benefits from your intervention?
The people who attend your intervention are the obvious group of impact recipients. You might already refer to them as Beneficiaries, Clients, Members, Participants, Patients, Service Users, etc.
There might be people or groups who indirectly benefit from your intervention as well.
Here are six additional groups who might indirectly benefit from your intervention:
Friends and Family members of participants
Professionals who support them
Local Community Members whose lives are affected by the behaviour of the participants
Society at large
Government
The Environment
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2. Which outcomes do your impact recipients experience?
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On Makerble you can add Perspective Providers to each contact.
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4. Which questions tell you the extent to which each outcome has been achieved?
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Makerble automatically timestamps each survey response so that you can how people’s responses to questions vary over time (Distance Travelled). However you can also:
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On Makerble you can view survey results in several places |
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Method | What it means |
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Case Studies | Stories and anecdotes which give individual examples of the difference your intervention makes |
Outputs | The number of activities you do (Activity Trackers) and the number of attendees you have (Attendance Trackers) |
Outcomes | Statements for each of the improvements that your intervention makes. I.e.
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Indicators | Questions that tell you the extent to which an improvement (outcome) is happening, rather than simply saying that it happened. I.e. |
Distance Travelled | The difference between a person’s initial response to a question (indicator) e.g. asked before the intervention and their final response to that same question e.g. asked after the intervention. The difference between the start and the end is called the Distance Travelled. |
Triangulation | Combining different people’s perspectives on the extent to which progress has been made. E.g. asking fellow pupils, parents and teachers whether a pupil’s attitude towards learning has improved This adds more confidence to your results as it shows that you are not just relying on a single source of information but that instead you are able to back up what you are saying about progress because you have several 'witnesses' of the progress, which you can include on Makerble by using perspective providers. |
Comparisons (Impact) | Compare what happens to people who experience your intervention with what happens to similar people who do not experience your intervention. The people who don’t experience your intervention are called a “control group”. The difference between what happens to the people in these two groups is called your “Impact”. This comparison will prove that your intervention is needed because it arms you with evidence to say that if your intervention was not there, “this is what would have happened”. This approach is sometimes used in medical trials and scenarios where it is necessary to prove that a particular intervention genuinely does make a difference compared to what would have happened anyway. |
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