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Fourteen Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work?
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Abstract
This chapter explores how the concept of social capital can be adapted and employed as a tool for participative evaluation of community-based work. It considers social capital as an excellent framework for evaluation and one which allows people to demonstrate the impact of their work with communities and inform their own practice and project development. It notes that the key feature of the framework is that learning must be shared. It highlights the need to offer training to local participants about social capital, employ local people or community members as workers, adopt a flexible and responsive management style, support the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data, and provide long-term funding for initiatives.
Abstract
This chapter explores how the concept of social capital can be adapted and employed as a tool for participative evaluation of community-based work. It considers social capital as an excellent framework for evaluation and one which allows people to demonstrate the impact of their work with communities and inform their own practice and project development. It notes that the key feature of the framework is that learning must be shared. It highlights the need to offer training to local participants about social capital, employ local people or community members as workers, adopt a flexible and responsive management style, support the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data, and provide long-term funding for initiatives.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures and boxes v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Preface xiii
- The politics of evaluation: an overview 1
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Governance and evaluation
- Below decks on the youth justice flagship: the politics of evaluation 21
- Urban regeneration: who defines the indicators? 41
- Reaching for the stars: the performance assessment framework for social services 57
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Participation and evaluation
- Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations 77
- Best Value but not best interests: can service users instruct mental health advocates? 87
- New Deal for Communities as a participatory public policy: the challenges for evaluation 97
- Discovery through dialogue and appreciative inquiry: a participative evaluation framework for project development 109
- Evaluating projects aimed at supporting the parents of young people: “I didn’t learn anything new, but ...” 119
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Partnerships and evaluation
- Evaluating interagency working in health and social care: politics, policies and outcomes for service users 135
- Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures 153
- Evaluating a partnership approach to supporting people into employment 175
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Learning from evaluation
- Evaluation and the New Deal for Communities: learning what for whom? 189
- Community-led regeneration: learning loops or reinvented wheels? 205
- Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work? 223
- Learning the art of evaluation: presume the presence of politics 239
- What the politics of evaluation implies 249
- Index 253
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures and boxes v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Preface xiii
- The politics of evaluation: an overview 1
-
Governance and evaluation
- Below decks on the youth justice flagship: the politics of evaluation 21
- Urban regeneration: who defines the indicators? 41
- Reaching for the stars: the performance assessment framework for social services 57
-
Participation and evaluation
- Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations 77
- Best Value but not best interests: can service users instruct mental health advocates? 87
- New Deal for Communities as a participatory public policy: the challenges for evaluation 97
- Discovery through dialogue and appreciative inquiry: a participative evaluation framework for project development 109
- Evaluating projects aimed at supporting the parents of young people: “I didn’t learn anything new, but ...” 119
-
Partnerships and evaluation
- Evaluating interagency working in health and social care: politics, policies and outcomes for service users 135
- Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures 153
- Evaluating a partnership approach to supporting people into employment 175
-
Learning from evaluation
- Evaluation and the New Deal for Communities: learning what for whom? 189
- Community-led regeneration: learning loops or reinvented wheels? 205
- Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work? 223
- Learning the art of evaluation: presume the presence of politics 239
- What the politics of evaluation implies 249
- Index 253
