0276 - Hands-on Evaluation Frameworks to Measure the Contribution of Community Organizations

Course Description

This course developed in partnership with community organizations will explore the different pathways by which community organizations add value and how evaluation frameworks need to understand and measure the diverse contributions of community organizations to improving health and social outcomes. This course is “hands-on” – this means that participants will be required to redesign monitoring and evaluation systems for community organizations to more comprehensively tell the community contribution story. In addition, this course will also explore how evaluation frameworks can better understand and incorporate ideas from Hawaiian indigenous knowledge including identity, cultural contexts and knowledge; ‘aina and a sense of place; the value of relationships; complex models of causation; the role of ‘intangibles’ such as aesthetics. This course is premised on the idea that there is a need to listen to community voices and stories and develop learning and evaluative frameworks that do justice to the complexity of the change processes implied by community contribution stories.

Facilitators:

Sanjeev Sridharan is Professor of Health Policy Evaluation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer is currently the Konohiki for Kulana o Kapolei -- A Hawaiian Place of Learning at University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu. 

Dr. Jocelyn Romero Demirbag is Director of Development, Maui Nui at The University of Hawaii Foundation