Procured through:
NSW Government Performance and Management Services Scheme
Project date: 2017
Project: Research and evaluation support for an alcohol and other drugs funding scheme
Led by Mary Haines, MHC built research capacity and provided quality assurance to support successful NGO grant recipients of the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Early Intervention Innovation Fund. MHC also provided strategic policy advice to the Ministry of Health on the scheme to help build the evidence base for early intervention models and ensure improved program delivery, services, results and outcomes.
What MHC Did
- Conducted reviews of the evaluations and provided analysis to the NSW Ministry of Health.
- Designed monitoring frameworks and strategies with a focus on outcomes and technical rigour
- Conducted reviews of evaluation reports to assess compliance with technical evaluation protocols and provided assurance activities
- Developed lessons learned for the scheme as a whole and for each evaluation
- Research impact
- Research capacity building
- Evaluation capacity building
- Translate research
- Reporting and monitoring
- Implementation capacity, planning, support, project management
- Facilitation and engagement with stakeholders
Outcome
The evaluation plans were designed with more methodological rigour and consistency in approach than would have been the case without MHC’s advice and guidance.
MHC’s work has also built evaluation capacity in the NGO organisations who were awarded funding, advice and guidance to the Ministry on improvements to the grant program, including Ted Noffs Foundation, Kedesh Rehabilitation Services, ACON, Mission Australia and Odyssey House.
Read more about the NSW Health AOD Early Intervention Innovation Fund here.
“We were very satisfied with the services delivered by MHC. The services were delivered on time, to budget and a high standard. We will engage MHC again for other related projects.”
Manager, NSW HealthMHC Services
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