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The purpose of the Evaluation Plan is to provide the Accountable Officer (ADG or DDG) with a detailed project plan identifying all resources, milestones and deliverables. It should build on the broad information from the Evaluation Proposal and detail how the evaluation will be managed to deliver the report on time and on budget.
The Commonwealth of Australia provides welfare payment for those job seekers who have not yet got any job to make their living. With the welfare payment there are many people who are utilising this money to engage in drug abuse and hence the authority has decided to apply a drug trial to prevent the welfare payments being used as fund the drug addiction of the people getting the welfare. It is important to note that the program is implemented in order to make sure the welfare payments are used in the right way for the welfare of the job seekers in the country and help them develop their professional status (Taylor et al., 2013).
(Select which is applicable. Include a description of the project/program/initiative and its objectives)
The purpose of the evaluation is to focus on implementing the drug test trial and understand the number of people who are addicted to drug abuse and pick them. After the evaluation being done the accountable officer will be able to decide whether the drug test trial have been able to succeed in picking the people who are addicted to drugs and using the welfare payments for drug abuse. Hence the evaluation will show the number of people testing positive with drugs which would help to put them in the rehabilitation and bring them back to mainstream life and encourage them to receive proper counselling and treatment (Luce and Elixhauser, 2012). (Why is the evaluation being done? i.e., what should the Accountable Officer be able to decide as a result of the evaluation?)
The scope for evaluation of the project involves evaluating the drug and alcohol abuse of the young people who are out of job and are receiving welfare payment from the Government. Around 5000 people will be involved in the drug testing trial. The drug testing trial application would help to improve the possibilities of streamlining the service properly (Kris-Etherton et al., 2014).(What aspects of the project/program/initiative are to be evaluated?)
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Inclusions (What does the evaluation include?) |
Exclusions (What does the evaluation exclude?) |
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The evaluation will include drug test trial for people living under welfare payments. |
This will not include everyone using drugs but only those who are living under welfare payment. |
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The evaluation is mainly done to improve the welfare payment system. |
It will exclude any kind of study that is not related to drug trial of the people living under welfare payment. |
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(List the approved evaluation questions the evaluation should answer to aid decision-making.)
In fulfilling the purposes of the evaluation, the following core questions were addressed:
The stakeholder evaluation is an extremely important aspect in the evaluation program. Stakeholders are the people who are directly related to the positives and negatives of the process. The stakeholder evaluation is important as the important stakeholders involved with the procedure could be identified through this (Dusetzina et al., 2012). The key stakeholders in this present evaluation program are the government, the job seekers living under welfare payment, the organisation doing the drug test trials and the tax payers who contribute to the welfare department through their money paid in the form of tax. Finally the rehab partners are strong stakeholder who has a fair bit of work to do as the healthcare partner for the Government. These stakeholders are extremely important for the success of this evaluation program as all of them play an important role in the completion of the present evaluation program that is the drug test trial of the people living under welfare payments (Jones et al., 2013).
The stakeholders are extremely important for the project and they have significant interest in this project of drug test trial. In a healthcare program like this there are number of key stakeholders who are involved in the program. Stakeholder evaluation helps in understanding for which groups of people the evaluation program is developed and how they are going to use the evaluation results. The stakeholders who are involved (List the key stakeholders the evaluation is designed for and how they will use the findingstt
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Audience (Who are the audiences for the information from the evaluation? e.g., students, teachers, management, staff, partners, etc.) |
How evaluation findings will be used (How can they apply new knowledge from the evaluation study?) |
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Staffs of the Welfare payment department |
They will use the evaluation to manage the account of the people living under the welfare payment. |
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Healthcare partners |
They are extremely important and will use the evaluation findings to strategise their overall healthcare intervention plan for the rehabilitation project. |
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The evaluation management structure will be very simple and effective which would help to get easy access to the different levels of the management during the evaluation procedure. The evaluation management structure will be simple hierarchical with the director on top and auditors and evaluators working under the different level management teams so that the results could be effectively communicated to the different levels of the evaluation team and could be used accordingly for the effective completion of the healthcare evaluation program. Hence it could be said that the key decision makers in the system are the director of the evaluation team and the other heads of the stakeholder groups (Oleske, 2014).
(List the key decision makers responsible for the evaluation.)
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Date |
Report type |
Writer/s |
Audience |
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The submission date of the report will be on the 1st of January 2020. (Specify the submission date of the report) |
Two different types of report will be submitted one a progress report that will be submitted at regular intervals within these two years and the other is the final evaluation report which would be completed by the end of two years. (Specify the report type, i.e., progress report, interim report, final report) |
The Accountable officer of the evaluation team. (Identify the officer/s writing the report) |
Welfare Payment Department.(Identify the stakeholder/ audience for the report, e.g., Minister, Policy and Performance Committee, Evaluation Steering Committee, external stakeholders, etc) |
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Submission of the progress report every six months and the final report on 3rd January 2020. |
The progress reports and final report will be submitted. |
The Head of the Evaluation team. |
The Healthcare partners. |
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Final report on 2nd January 2020 |
The final report will be sent. |
The Director of the Evaluation Team |
The Commonwealth Government. |
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The evaluation framework is an extremely important aspect for the successful completion of the evaluation program. The Evaluation framework is the basic blueprint of the study which helps in managing the evaluation and driving it towards achieving the deliverables of the evaluation program. The evaluation framework is important as it helps to highlight the rationale and design summary and the evaluation approach effectively which helps the evaluation. The main purpose of this evaluation program is to achieve the stated objectives and research questions involved with the evaluation that is to understand the impact of the drug trial and its results which would help the key stakeholders involved in the evaluation program to make sure they can use the results properly for their own good (Posavac, 2015). The evaluation framework involves planning which helps to effectively go about the job of evaluation effectively. In this case the planning is done where ultimately the time duration of the project evaluation has been fixed, the sample populace has been fixed the clear strategies have been developed which would help to move about the project properly. The evaluation framework deals with the approach and the rationale of the project that has been taken to evaluate in order to understand its overall impact and whether it is effective enough to make the decision to continue the intervention strategy. In this case it is important to note that the evaluation program is focused on drug test trial which is mainly done to understand how people living under welfare system are misusing the money given to them. Hence it could be said that the study becomes extremely effective since it provides significant data which would help to make effective assumption and develop stronger strategy for rehabilitation and counselling of the job seekers and individuals addicted to alcohol and drugs (Brinkerhoff et al., 2012). This is one kind of health control program and hence it is important to move effectively with time to manage the program effectively in order to get the best possible result from the evaluation. The present evaluation will help to get long term information about drug abuse and alcohol addiction which would help to overhaul the welfare payment system and help to make the use of the fund effective and suitable for the youths. The effective evaluation findings will help to develop proper intervention and rehabilitation strategy for the youths involved in drug abuse and alcohol (Venable, Pries-Heje and Baskerville, 2012).
The evaluation approach is an extremely important as it will help to move towards effective completion of the health evaluation program. There are several types of evaluation which are adopted by the evaluation team. This evaluation approach will mainly focus on using outcome evaluation approach which would help to make sure the outcome of the program is effective. The outcome evaluation of the drug test trial will help the authority to effectively understand the results of the evaluation and manage them effectively in the long run. The outcome of the evaluation helps to develop appropriate measures that will help to make changes in the health conditions, quality of life and behaviours. It will also focus on assessing the impact of the program on the participants. The appropriate measures include changes in awareness, knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and skills. The impact evaluation of the project will be developed with the help of the impact based accountability model which would help to develop a strong methodology and logic structure for the program (Brinkerhoff et al., 2012). It is important to note that in the present evaluation approach the evaluation will be done with the help of formative and summative evaluation technique which would help to develop better intervention strategies and accordingly. The formative techniques will help to get suitable insights from the entire evaluation and effectively manage the process and findings for the evaluation which is effective for the completion of the evaluation. The formative assessment will help to provide insights to the authorities and the other stakeholders that would help to make sure the long term objectives are met and the healthcare intervention strategies are developed properly. The evaluation will also be systematic and will take an opportunity to involve the participants effectively to make sure they are used to good effect in order to get the right kind of information from them regarding drug abuse and keep them under observation and continuously apply the trial on them to get progress report as well as the final drug test trial report effectively. Overall it could be said that the drug trial test will be effective for the evaluation team to get the desired outcomes to analyse the impact of the trial (Venable, Pries-Heje and Baskerville, 2012).
(What framework will be used to guide the evaluation? If a Program Logic approach is used, insert the diagram or append as an Attachment. If another framework approach is to be used please insert diagram below.)
(Detail the information and collection requirements below. Note: all information collected should link to the Core Evaluation Question/s to be addressed)
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Core evaluation question to address |
Information required |
Information sources |
Data collection and analysis |
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How many people in the sample are addicted to drug and alcohol?(Specify The Core Evaluation Question/s to be addressed by the evaluation as listed in Section 2.3) |
Personal and drug addiction information.(List the subsets of information required to answer the Core Evaluation Questions) |
Sample populace chosen for the study. (What are sources for the information? E.g., from employees, clients, project/program/iniative documentation, etc.) |
Data collection will be done with qualitative depth interview and program observation. On the other hand analysis will be done with the help of thematic analysis.(What are the best methods to employ in data collection and analysis? E.g., questionnaires, interviews, examining documentation etc.) |
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Is the evaluation effective enough? |
Information about the efficacy of the program evaluation. |
Regular progress reports |
Statistical analysis of the trends showed by the progress reports. |
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Is the time duration of the study suitable? |
Information on visible changes through observation. |
Program observation |
Results and process evaluation (Venable, Pries-Heje and Baskerville, 2012). |
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Effective budgeting and staff resourcing is important for the effective implementation of the process so that the impact of the evaluation could be properly analysed. The staffs are extremely important stakeholders in the evaluation plan as they do the basic work of evaluation. In the present evaluation plan the third party service providers will be involved where there will be at least 20 staffs that will be taking care of the evaluation program. On the other hand the staffs of the department of human resources will have supervisory staffs working in the evaluation program for the effective application of the project. A group of 10 medical professionals will be used for the program which would help to get real time information about the drug test trial and will help to make sure the insights are effective enough for the impact evaluation of the drug test trial applied on the 5000 respondents. Even though the cost of the entire measurement program has not been published but it could be said that for the two years of the drug test trial application on the job seekers living under welfare payment will be approximately US$85000. This will include the remuneration and funds for the other key services provided by the medical professionals, the remuneration of the other supervisory staffs and the payment to the third party service providers (Dy and Purnell, 2012). Overall it could be said that this is likely to include the rehab and intervention programs of the job seekers addicted to drugs as well.
(Specify the funding and human resource capacity for the evaluation. Include materials, travel, external evaluators etc.)
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The core team of evaluation will be responsible to apply the evaluation procedure on the respondents in this case 5000 job seekers who are living under welfare payments. It is important to note that the main role of the Accountable officer that is the head of the evaluation team is to manage the team members of the core evaluation team and allocate suitable roles to each and every member of the team. The evaluation team members are extremely important in the context of the program evaluation since they are responsible to collect the sample of the respondents for the drug test namely like the sample for the Ice test, hair follicle samples, urine sample and saliva tests and bring them to the respective Medical professional for the effective completion of the program. The third party service providers are allocated the job of constantly doing the tests and also to observe the samples for observation results and the Human resource supervisory staffs will be responsible for the overall supervision of the entire evaluation program. Hence to conclude it could be said that the different groups of employees if doesn’t do their respective work the project wouldn’t be successful as it will not get the desired result from the evaluation program (Jones et al., 2013).
(Identify the roles and responsibilities of the Evaluation Team members)
(What are the major timelines, key activities and milestones for the evaluation?)
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Major milestones |
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Consultation with Evaluation Services regarding support and approval process for the evaluation |
1st month of the starting of the project. Jan 2018 |
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Program Logic Model (or evaluation framework) generated |
February 2018 to April 2018 |
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Evaluation Governance Group established with endorsed Terms of Reference |
May to June (2018) |
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Draft Evaluation Proposal presented to Evaluation Governance Group for feedback |
June to August (2018) |
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Evaluation Proposal endorsed by Evaluation Governance Group |
August to September (2018) |
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Evaluation Proposal approved by Evaluation Steering Committee |
September to October (2018) |
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Consultant contracted (if applicable) or Evaluation Team appointed |
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Progress Report to Evaluation Steering Committee |
(October to November (2018) |
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Data gathering and analysis complete |
November to March (2018-2019) |
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Progress Report to Evaluation Steering Committee |
March to May (2019) |
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Draft Evaluation Report presented to Evaluation Governance Group for feedback |
May to June (2019) |
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Draft Evaluation Report endorsed by Evaluation Governance Group |
June to August (2019) |
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Final Evaluation Report approved by Evaluation Steering Committee |
August to October (2019) |
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Brief with any recommendations to the Policy and Performance Committee with any recommendations |
October to January (2019-2020) |
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References
Brinkerhoff, R.O., Brethower, D.M., Nowakowski, J. and Hluchyj, T. eds., 2012. Program evaluation: A practitioner’s guide for trainers and educators(Vol. 2). Springer Science & Business Media.
Dusetzina, S.B., Higashi, A.S., Dorsey, E.R., Conti, R., Huskamp, H.A., Zhu, S., Garfield, C.F. and Alexander, G.C., 2012. Impact of FDA drug risk communications on health care utilization and health behaviors: a systematic review. Medical care, 50(6), p.466.
Dy, S.M. and Purnell, T.S., 2012. Key concepts relevant to quality of complex and shared decision-making in health care: a literature review. Social science & medicine, 74(4), pp.582-587.
Jones, K.J., Skinner, A.M., High, R. and Reiter-Palmon, R., 2013. A theory-driven, longitudinal evaluation of the impact of team training on safety culture in 24 hospitals. BMJ Qual Saf, pp.bmjqs-2012.
Kris-Etherton, P.M., Akabas, S.R., Bales, C.W., Bistrian, B., Braun, L., Edwards, M.S., Laur, C., Lenders, C.M., Levy, M.D., Palmer, C.A. and Pratt, C.A., 2014. The need to advance nutrition education in the training of health care professionals and recommended research to evaluate implementation and effectiveness. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 99(5), pp.1153S-1166S.
Luce, B.R. and Elixhauser, A., 2012. Standards for the economics evaluation of health care services. Springer Science & Business Media.
Oleske, D.M., 2014. Epidemiology and the delivery of health care services. Springer.
Posavac, E., 2015. Program evaluation: Methods and case studies. Routledge.
Taylor, M.J., McNicholas, C., Nicolay, C., Darzi, A., Bell, D. and Reed, J.E., 2013. Systematic review of the application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare. BMJ Qual Saf, pp.bmjqs-2013.
Venable, J., Pries-Heje, J. and Baskerville, R., 2012, May. A comprehensive framework for evaluation in design science research. In International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems (pp. 423-438). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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