Empowerment Knowledge and Skills + Implementation Empowering People

2: Assessment Stages of Measurement INITIALINTERMEDIATELONG-TERM Knowledge transfer Understanding Implementation Behavior Result of Implementation Outcomes

Inputs Outputs Outcomes Project Evaluation

Outcomes are particularly difficult to measure when it comes to a youth population Requires some type of follow-up step that allows you to observe long-term implementation Pre and post tests only indicate a short-term increase in knowledge Financial Literacy

Outcomes Needs group identified: 3 rd through 8 th grade Knowledge transferred: workshops and financial literacy lessons Implementation: Students create and run school store. Profits are collected and measured. Contribution goes to education. Implementation: Students create and run school store. Profits are collected and measured. Contribution goes to education. Outputs: Initial measurement of impact. what lessons were taught and to how many children? What is the level of understanding? Typical Project Cycle

Implementation is key It will be much easier to quantify a long-term impact if you can empower the target audience to use the knowledge they have gained Finally, the outcomes will be what happens as a result of implementation So How Can This Improve?

SOCIA L Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIAL HUMAN Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIAL HUMAN PHYSICAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

Have students start a school store or small entrepreneurial venture Profits can be measured and saved and/or put back into the education In this case, the institution is the target audience May require a more detailed needs assessment Primary and secondary beneficiaries Have the students put your lessons into action Think outside the box! Ideas For Implementation

Outcomes Profits earned, educational programs sustained Needs group identified: 3 rd through 8 th grade Knowledge transferred: workshops and financial literacy lessons Implementation: Students create and run school store. Profits are collected and measured. Contribution goes to education. Implementation: Students create and run school store. Profits are collected and measured. Contribution goes to education. Outputs: Initial measurement of impact. what lessons were taught and to how many children? What is the level of understanding? Complete Project Cycle

FINANCIAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL HUMAN Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL HUMANPHYSICAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

Food Drives Worthwhile cause, but no sustainability or empowerment Nutrition Seminars Knowledge and skills, but no implementation Results in a lack of empowerment hard to measure outcomes Popular Initiatives & Why they don’t meet the criterion

NEEDS ASSESSMENT Currently there are 19 food desert communities in Greensboro, NC More than 60% of citizens living in food deserts are obese Another 47% have been diagnosed with a medical condition associated with not eating healthy Project: P.A.T.H. Bennett College

What: A community garden that provides health education and locally grown fruits and vegetables to multiple food desert areas. Mission: To provide food desert communities with access to nutrients they would not usually have.

Assessing the Livelihood Assets NATURAL Access to a plot of land and the tools necessary to plant a garden

Assessing the Livelihood Assets NATURAL Access to a plot of land and the tools necessary to plant a garden Ability to teach gardening and health education HUMAN

Assessing the Livelihood Assets NATURAL Access to a plot of land and the tools necessary to plant a garden Ability to teach gardening and health education HUMAN SOCIAL Access to community members willing to participate

Livelihood OUTCOMES Produced more than 40 types of vegetables NATURAL Project: P.A.T.H. Bennett College

Livelihood OUTCOMES Produced more than 40 types of vegetables It’s the only winter garden in the food desert community NATURAL SOCIAL Project: P.A.T.H. Bennett College

Livelihood OUTCOMES Produced more than 40 types of vegetables It’s the only winter garden in the food desert community Over 172 families have received food/produce from the garden NATURAL SOCIAL HUMAN Project: P.A.T.H. Bennett College

Difficult to achieve high attendance of people in need Only result in a knowledge an skill transfer, but lack implementation Difficulty in Communicating with attendees after the seminar Creating a follow-up plan to ensure that attendees implement the knowledge they have gained and what the result of that implementation is Employment Seminars & Why they’re difficult to measure.

Implementation is key It will be much easier to quantify a long-term impact if you can empower the target audience to use the knowledge they have gained Finally, the outcomes will be what happens as a result of implementation So, how can this improve?

SOCIAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIALHUMAN Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIALHUMAN Financial Assessing the Livelihood Assets

Identify skill(s) to teach to target audience Have students participate in mock Interviews to practice Invite HR managers to participate as instructors during the lessons Create follow-up steps that connect to employers in the community currently interviewing for open positions Follow up with attendees to find out how many received interviews and jobs Ideas for Implementation

Outcomes Number of Interviews/Jobs Received Needs group identified: Unemployed Adults Knowledge transferred: workshops and financial literacy lessons Implementation: Students in an interactive employment seminar, team follows up with Students after the seminar for outcomes Outputs: Initial measurement of impact. what lessons were taught and to how many children? What is the level of understanding? Complete Project Cycle

FINANCIAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL HUMAN Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

FINANCIAL SOCIAL HUMANPHYSICAL Examples of Livelihood Outcomes

Recycling/Environmental Sustainability Projects & Why they are difficult to measure These projects require that you create sustainable solutions for your target audience to improve livelihoods by empowering others AND the environment (not just the environment) In order to improve livelihoods, the direct target audience should be human It can be difficult to create sustainable projects through entrepreneurial action while incorporating environmental efforts

Art Inspired Drury University What: A local, sustainable business in partnership with Abilities First, a non-profit organization that serves individuals with special needs –Art inspired provides secure document destruction services to area business and it converts the paper to pulp which is used to make the products sold at the store Mission: To provide meaningful employment for individuals with developmental disabilities

SOCIAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIALNATURAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIALPHYSICALNATURAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

SOCIAL PHYSICAL FINANCIAL NATURAL Assessing the Livelihood Assets

Outcomes Individuals with special needs have meaningful employment; these individuals improved their own skills, and mentored younger individuals, all while using recycled material to make art.

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