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Why Evaluate?
Observing Changes
Since the main goal of the CommunityCheck project is to
promote change in organisations with publicly accessible
buildings, users of these buildings and volunteers
working on the project, it is important to assess, after
some time, whether or not the project is actually
achieving these goals.
Assessing change in the organisations' practices will be
achieved mainly by carrying out the ReChecks 6 months
after the initial Check. As mentioned before, the new
scores are compared with the baseline scores obtained
during the initial check. This allows us to see how the
organisations' performance has changed across different
areas during this time period. In the tools section of
this page you can find a data capture table which will
help you to record and analyse these scores.
In addition to this type of information, it might be
useful to find out from organisations what they have
thought about the project in more depth and in their own
words. This can be accomplished using in depth
telephone semi structured interviews.
A guide and interview recording table are included in
the tools section.
A similar approach can be used with your volunteers in
order to find out how they think the project has
affected their behaviours and lifestyles. It is however
more difficult to determine how the project has affected
users of these publicly accessible buildings and we
encourage you to be innovate in your approach to
encouraging sustainable behaviour of staff and users and
also in your approach to assessing these changes.
The ultimate target for your CommunityCheck project is
to bring about behaviour change geared towards more
sustainable consumption among the checked organisations,
their staff, and their users. This toolkit is just a
template to guide you towards achieving this target. You
can build on this toolkit and its chances of
successfully bringing about behaviour change by
introducing your own innovations, which we encourage,
and through a process of shared learning with others
engaged in promoting sustainable consumption.
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