How people with disabilities experience programs to prevent intimate partner violence across four countries
Publication date: Available online 16 December 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Erin Stern, Ingrid van der Heijden, Kristin DunkleAbstractWomen with disabilities are more vulnerable to violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV), yet the majority of emerging IPV prevention programs fail to explicitly consider the needs of participants with disabilities. Women and men living with disabilities engaged with IPV prevention programs in four countries were interviewed to explore how disability shaped their experiences of gender, violence, IPV, and whether the programs met their disability related nee...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Perceptions of Participants and Staff of Implementing a Physical Activity Program in Rural Primary Care
Publication date: Available online 16 December 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Jill R. Reed, Danae Dinkel, Matthew R. Bice, Paul Estabrooks, Bunny Pozehl, Kate Heelan (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Interorganizational network findings from a nationwide cardiovascular disease prevention initiative
ConclusionsWhen planning and implementing interorganizational networks, high betweenness centrality and more hierarchically structured networks were identified as the most salient partnership characteristics to programmatic success. The network findings were triangulated with previously published qualitative data to provide context. These findings provide valuable insight on how national networks can be designed and leveraged to implement systematic community health projects. (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Visionary evaluation: approaching Aboriginal ontological equity in water management evaluation
Publication date: Available online 16 December 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Susan GoffAbstractThe 2017 Traditional Owner evaluation of the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan developed an approach to evaluation that tested the use of Standpoint Theory in the field of natural resource management. This methodological choice was intended to enable a cross-cultural, participatory and systemic inclusion of Aboriginal approaches to data generation and use in equal measure to non-indigenous approaches. The method is implemented as a nested, up-hierarchy of scale, enabling a pan-optican dimensi...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluation Capacity Building in the Nonformal Education Context: Challenges and Strategies
Publication date: Available online 9 December 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Anil Kumar Chaudhary, John Diaz, K.S.U. Jayaratne, Elsie AssanAbstractPolicymakers’ demand for increased accountability has compelled organizations to pay more attention to internal evaluation capacity building (ECB). The existing literature about ECB has focused on capacity building experiences and organizational research, with limited attention on challenges that internal evaluation specialists face in building organizational evaluative capacity. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a Delphi study with evaluation ...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Few Introductory Notes on the Special Issue on the Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (EFFORTI)
Publication date: Available online 4 December 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Mita MarraAbstractBeing European with a long standing research interest in evaluation of gender policies, I could not begin my assignment as Editor in Chief with a better task. Readers will forgive me for these few biographical notes. Before presenting this special issue, I owe many thanks to Jonny Morell who involved me in its design as early as June 2018. I also want to thank Susanne Bührer, Clemens Striebing, Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt, Rachel Palmén, Sybille Reidl, Florian Holzinger and Jörg Müller, who invited me a...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - December 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Scoping Review of Knowledge Syntheses in the Field of Evaluation across Four Decades of Practice
Publication date: Available online 28 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Justin Lawarée, Steve Jacob, Mathieu OuimetAbstractThis scoping review of 62 knowledge syntheses published in evaluation-focused journals between 1979 and May 2018 provides a portrait of synthesis practices and their evolution in the mainstream of the field of evaluation. Concerns surrounding the production of knowledge syntheses to answer policy questions are not new in the field of evaluation. However, during this last decade, knowledge synthesis methods have expanded as a means to go beyond the limits and constraints of...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Contribution analysis to analyze the effects of the health impact assessment at the local level: A case of urban revitalization
Publication date: Available online 27 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Jean Marie Buregeya, Christine Loignon, Astrid BrousselleAbstractThe health impact assessment (HIA) is a tool used to estimate the potential impact on health of non-health-related proposals prior to implementation. While it is increasingly used in Quebec, Canada, studies have not analyzed its medium-term impacts and potential long-term impacts. We conducted a contribution analysis using in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, as well as documents, observation and images related to HIA in order to analyze its impacts on t...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Improving performance evaluation based on balanced scorecard with grey relational analysis and data envelopment analysis approaches: Case study in water and wastewater companies
Publication date: Available online 24 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Fatemeh Sarraf, Shabnam Hashemi NejadAbstractVarious approaches are used to measure the firms’ performance. Grey relational analysis is one of the multiple attribute decision-making methods and data envelopment analysis is used to calculate the efficiency. Regarding the importance of water and wastewater companies’ services, the present study, evaluates the performance and rank these companies by using grey relational analysis and data envelopment analysis approaches based on balanced scorecard criteria. Besides, balanc...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Core Strategies, Social Processes, and Contextual Influences of Early Phases of Implementation and Statewide Scale-up of Group Prenatal Care in South Carolina
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Kristin M. Van De Griend, Deborah L. Billings, Edward A. Frongillo, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Amy H. Crockett, Sarah Covington-KolbAbstractThis mixed-methods process evaluation examined a state-wide, interagency collaborative in South Carolina that expanded CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care from two to five additional healthcare practices from 2012 to 2015. The evaluation focused on delineating core processes, strategies, and external contextual elements of group prenatal care implementation and scale-up. Success of...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluating complex interventions in real context: logic analysis of a case management program for frequent users of healthcare services
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Catherine Hudon, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Astrid Brousselle, Mathieu Bisson, Alya DanishAbstractCase management programs for frequent users of healthcare services are complex interventions which implementation and application are challenging to evaluate. The aim of this article was to conduct a logic analysis to evaluate a case management program for frequent users of healthcare services. The study proceeded in three phases: 1) establishing causal links between the program’s components by the construction of a logic mode...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 22, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Integrating the Gender Dimension in Teaching, Research Content & Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Validating the EFFORTI Evaluation Framework through three Case Studies in Europe
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Rachel Palmén, Lidia Arroyo, Jörg Müller, Sybille Reidl, Maria Caprile, Maximillian UngerAbstractGender equality and gender mainstreaming in research is one of the six European Research Area (ERA) priorities. Integrating the gender dimension in research content and teaching is one of its three objectives. It is arguably the objective where least progress has been made. In this article we contribute to the evidence base by applying the EFFORTI evaluation framework to three empirical case study interventions that aim to in...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Women Underrepresentation in R&I: A Sector Program Assessment of the Contribution of Gender Equality Policies to Research and Innovation
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Clemens Striebing, Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt, Rachel Palmén, Florian Holzinger, Beata NagyAbstractDespite decades of efforts to achieve gender equality in research and innovation (R&I), all EU member states still face remarkable difficulties in driving forward the development of their innovation system while at the same time improving gender equality by using all the available research potential. In this paper we focus on the development of the share of women researchers in four national innovation systems, i.e. in Austr...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
How do public investments in gender equality initiatives and publication patterns interrelate? The case of Germany
This article examines whether two of the major German flagship programmes to increase the participation of female researchers in the German science system, the "Women Professorship Programme" and the "Pact for Research and Innovation", have actually increased the number of women, especially in leadership positions. In a second step, we analyse whether such an assumed increase influences the publication patterns of authors with German affiliation. This article is based on literature and desk research as well as bibliometric analysis using Scopus. The most important result is that the number of women in research has indeed i...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - November 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
