Module 6: HIV Prevention Evaluation for Native Communities

Goal of Module 6: To provide an evaluation framework for your HIV prevention intervention program.

In order to provide an effective HIV prevention intervention for Native people, you will need to ensure that a solid, culturally relevant evaluation plan informs your program from beginning to end. Program evaluation can help determine whether your HIV prevention intervention program is accomplishing what it set out to accomplish. This module includes an overview of helpful cultural components that effect evaluation, hands-on considerations, evaluation steps and tools, and avenues to share lessons learned to help you build an effective evaluation for your HIV prevention intervention program.

Contents 3f Share Lessons Learned

This module helps you to create and conduct evaluation of your HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention program.

It includes information on:

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Key Concepts to Guide Evaluation

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Hands-On Considerations
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Evaluation Steps

Think about all of the different ways that your information can be used. Consult your evaluation advisory group and/or community planning group regarding the appropriate methods and venues for sharing the outcomes, then plan your reports and the dissemination of your results accordingly. You can share your reports with program staff to show them how their work has affected the community. You can also determine where more resources or energy should be focused, or what types of additional staff training should be added. Your reports can also inform where you should direct funding.

Present your data in a way that the community can understand and use, making sure that you have tribal approval to share the information when appropriate. Include recommendations for use of the data. Provide information on the accomplishments of the program and the lessons learned. If a program did not perform as expected, explore the possible reasons. Remember that knowing what didn’t work is just as important as knowing what did work.

The evaluation report should include:

  • Executive Summary: a clear, concise synopsis which highlights the key points, findings, and recommendations of the final report
  • Introduction: background information that includes a description of the program goals/objectives dictating the evaluation
  • Methodology and study design: description of how you collected the information (data)
  • Findings: a summary of the results
  • Conclusions and recommendations: based on these results state the conclusions and recommendations regarding program lessons learned, improvements, accomplishments, and uses of report
  • Appendices: supplementary materials such as references, statistical tables, questionnaires, data collection instruments, etc.

Sample Evaluation Report Links:
http://palmgrants.sri.com/PEP_Final_Report.pdf
http://www.hungercenter.org/chc/NHFEvaluation.pdf
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/ff565.pdf

Exercise

  • Make a list of community stakeholders or consult the past list you made.
  • For each group on your list, identify ways to communicate the findings of the evaluation.
    • These could include press releases, community forums, mailing executive summaries, presentations to tribal officials, etc.