Deliver your Community Action Plan

Once your CAP has been planned and approved, delivery has five parts:

• keeping your partners and community involved
• promoting your activities and sharing your successes
• collecting evaluation data as you go
• reporting on your results
• acquitting your funding.

Keep your partners and community involved

Keep working with your community and partners throughout delivery. It helps you maintain relationships, spot risks early and adapt if needed, so your activity goes to plan. It also builds the leadership, skills and capacity your LDAT needs to create lasting change in your community.

An LDAT is made up of at least three organisations that share a vision of reducing harm from alcohol and other drugs in their community. LDATs can bring in partners for the short or long term, for example to add expertise or resources for a particular CAP. Plan, monitor, refresh and evaluate all your partnerships.

Strong partnerships are critical to addressing the complex causes of alcohol and other drug use. Working with community partners helps you:

• draw on other local networks and extend your reach
• bring together a range of skills, knowledge and experience
• draw on different perspectives and insights
• address causes of alcohol and other drug harm that go beyond any one group or organisation
• increase your impact in the community.

For more, see AOD and community partnerships and ethical and legal considerations for community activities.

Promote your activities and share your successes

Prepare media releases and social media posts for your events, such as the launch of an activity or new funding for your LDAT. See how to work with local media and social media for your local community projects for how. Follow the LDAT branding guidelines when you use the LDAT logo.

As well as your ADF reporting, you could share your successes by:

• writing a one-page summary of your activity’s successes and learnings that someone unfamiliar with the work can easily understand
• writing up your key findings
• uploading a report to your activity, organisation and partner websites
• sharing key messages on social media
• contributing short pieces to sector newsletters or network e-bulletins
• writing an article for the local paper
• presenting key findings at meetings of other local organisations or businesses.

Collect your evaluation data as you go

You’ll evaluate your activity by tracking the process and impact measures you set when planning your CAP. Collect evaluation data for each measurable activity as you deliver it. Collecting as you go saves work later, such as trying to recall attendance numbers or chasing survey responses.

For common data collection tools, see collect your data. To design your tools, the Evaluation Measures Guide gives example survey questions, and the LDAT Alternative Evaluation Methods resource has ideas for communities where surveys don’t work well. Ask your ADF Relationship Manager if you need copies.

Report on your results

Use the data you’ve collected to assess what worked and what didn’t. For each evaluation measure, you’ll have set a target in your digital CAP. For example, a target might be to deliver four AOD workshops, and you’d report that four out of four were delivered. Report your outcomes through the digital platform where you submitted your CAP.

When you report, consider:

• Does the data show you met your targets? If not, why not?
• Were there any unexpected findings?
• What can you learn from the findings?
• Who did the activity have the most impact on?
• What would you do differently next time?

It doesn’t matter if your activity didn’t go as expected. What you learn will help you adapt future activities. If you’re collecting qualitative data, such as stories or interviews, talk with your Relationship Manager about how best to report it.

Acquit your funding

All LDATs must acquit any LDAT program funding at the end of their CAP. The acquittal confirms the funds were spent as planned and identifies any unspent funds that could be used for future activities.

Acquittals are completed through the ADF’s electronic signing system, CongaSign. You’ll receive an email with instructions on how to complete yours.

Once you’ve reported on your activity, your LDAT can consider follow-up activities to decide on the next CAP for your community. Speak with your ADF Relationship Manager for guidance, and use resources such as the AOD Lifecycle Planner to choose activities that suit your audience.

Last reviewed: 1 November 2026