Indicators to look for and measure in your programme

In this video, Dr Aisling McGrath, Assistant Lecturer at South East Technological University in Ireland, shares her experience and tips on monitoring and evaluating community-based programmes. In particular, she suggests simple, validated measures of self-rated health, happiness, life satisfaction, and social capital, as well as how best to use them.

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Who to work with: tips & tricks on stakeholder engagement

In this video, Hanna, Lone and Niamh provide us with some important tips and insights based on their experience and knowledge of the “Act-Belong-Commit” approach (Go back to Topic 2 of this module if you would like to hear more about it).

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Key takeaways from the module

🔹 Create a welcoming, non-threatening environment

🔹 Understand the power of small and simple gestures

• You don’t have to be an expert

• Set inclusion and listening as important values for your organisation and group

• Just being there means a lot

🔹 It is important to capture and demonstrate even the subtlest positive changes

🔹 Knowing your target audience is also important. Understanding what they value in terms of their own wellbeing is even more important.

🔹 The personal subjective wellbeing measures from the Office for National Statistics known as  “ONS4”,  is a valid, tested, and reliable framework of questions to measure wellbeing 

🔹 Keep your evaluation succinct and easy to manage. And try to normalise it as best as you can for both you and your participants.