levels of assessment Tool
Levels of Assessment
Internal Coalition Development
Membership
What
types of stakeholders are involved?
Are
those most affected engaged?
Recruitment
and Retention
Are
new members being recruited?
Are
members retained?
Ownership/commitment
What
roles do members take?
What
work do they take on?
What
is their level of participation?
Do
they bring issues back to their home organization?
Are Resources
generated by the coalition sponsor? Members?
Processes
What
is the coalition’s organizational competence?
Do
you have a vision, mission, and goals?
Do
you regularly have agendas and minutes, and do you distribute them?
How
effective is the communication – internal and external?
Coalition
structure
Are
meetings scheduled regularly?
Are
roles and responsibilities clear?
Are
decision-making processes clear?
Do
you address and manage conflict?
Do
you document your efforts and provide ongoing feedback
on programs?
Activities
/ roles:
Does
the coalition engage in the following activities:
Information
exchange?
Advocacy?
Catalyst
for change?
Gatherer/convener?
Planning
and implementation
Is
there a plan and does it get implemented?
Does
it lead to community/systems change?
Innovative
collaborative problem-solving
Do
innovative solutions emerge?
Are
new and more perspectives provided on issues?
Are
outcomes more comprehensive?
Emerging partnerships, linkages, and relationships
Are
old partnerships enhanced?
Are
new partnerships created?
Do members
report benefits from participating?
Outcomes
A.
Major intermediary outcomes:
As
a result of the coalition, are there changes in:
Programs/Products?
Policies?
Practices?
B.
Other outcomes
1. Dissemination
Is
information and knowledge exchanged?
2. Leadership
of the coalition
Does
the coalition develop and support leadership?
Does
the coalition build leadership on its issues?
3. Coalition
learning
Do
coalition members learn about:
Facilitative
vs. traditional leadership role (running things)?
Letting
go / trusting the process?
Allowing
coalitions to evolve?
Scarcity-to-abundance
mentality shift?
4. Outcomes – intentional
and unintentional
Are
there unintended side effects?
What
happened that surprised you that you did not
plan for as an outcome?
Were
there spin-offs?
5. Were
the outcomes created the ones that mattered?
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