Measures of success (sometimes called indicators) indicate what needs to be measured in order to assess the activity’s success. They are markers of your Community Action Plan’s progress and achievements.
There are two main categories:
Measures of success need to be determined for the key activity in your Community Action Plan. Groups are required to specify
at least two process and two impact measures for each activity. You will also need to identify the tools recommended in Section 5: Measuring success of your selected toolkit you will use to collect data for each measure. This provides a suite of process and impact success measures that relate to the toolkit activity. These provide a good starting point to developing your own Community Action Plan activity success measures
Tips for developing measures of success:
Some example measures of success for community action to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harms are provided the table below. The Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s suite of toolkits contain other success measures. You may find these a useful starting point for developing your own.
Community action | Process measures | Impact/Outcome measures |
---|---|---|
Education sessions |
• Number of education sessions • Number of participants • Number/quality of resources and materials distributed • Partners involved in planning the sessions • Participant satisfaction with session |
• Increase in awareness, knowledge, attitudes or skills • Change in behaviour • Improved access to information for target audience |
Partnership work |
• Number/range of partners involved • Number of meetings attended • Representation on local networks • Number of partnership agreements established • Whether the partnership activity went according to plan • Partnership engagement processes |
• Development and implementation of new policies and procedures committed to preventing alcohol and drug harm (e.g. workplace, local government, partner organisation) • The number and types of partnerships generated (and embedded) |
Awareness raising |
• Number/quality resources and materials developed • Number of subscribers of e-newsletters • Number of website views • Local/social media coverage • Satisfaction with activity resources (e.g. messaging) |
• Increase in awareness and knowledge • Increased integration of alcohol and other drug-related issues in organisational policies and plans |