Toolkits
The Violence Reduction Partnership has developed resources for use in the ongoing work to tackle serious violence. You can receive support for your organisation from the available toolkits below.
Theory of Change, Monitoring, and Evaluation Toolkit
A toolkit for developing a culture of evaluation and learning.
This Evaluation toolkit has been created through a partnership of work between the Violence Reduction Partnership and Ecorys - an independent research and evaluation organisation.
Through evaluation, the partnership aims to equip intervention providers in West Yorkshire with evidence-based strategies for preventing and reducing violent crime.
Partners can access the below resources to create Theories of Change for projects which, in turn, support the creation of robust monitoring systems and evaluation techniques.
- Introduction to the Theory of Change Toolkit
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This toolkit contains advice and resources for practical approaches to embedding a culture of learning in your organisation. It is based around best practice, so may give you some ideas for tweaking or adjusting your approaches.
- Theory of Change
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A Theory of Change (ToC) shows how an intervention (or project, programme, or policy) is intended to work. It is like a roadmap that indicates how the inputs and activities are expected to produce the desired outcomes and impact.
You can find out more in this video:
- Monitoring: Understanding if your project is working
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Your organisation may already be well experienced in collecting monitoring data.
Most routine monitoring focuses on outputs, and many organisations are less used to collecting data on outcomes. By having a clear understanding of what your project aims to achieve, you can set up your monitoring processes at the outset of project delivery.
You can find out more in this video:
- Evaluation: Laying the foundations
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Evaluation is the process of assessing the quality and value of something and why it has that value or quality. It should use relevant evidence to inform decisions about the value of policies and programmes and support the allocation of resources.
Our delivery partners might experience evaluation in a number of different ways: as the subject of someone else’s evaluation, by doing self-evaluation or by commissioning an evaluation from a professional researcher.You can find out more in this video:
- Evaluation Methods
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Process evaluation seeks to capture the experiences of those delivering the intervention as well as those experiencing the intervention (i.e., young people, communities) to identify what is working well and any aspects that are, or may prove to be, problematic.
Various methods are used to assess how an intervention is working and why it might work better in a different context.
You can find out more in this video:
- Evaluation Findings : What Next?
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When developing your research outputs, the first thing to think about is your audience. It is important to identify your target audience and tailor your message accordingly, because different audiences have different needs, interests, and expectations.
- Glossary
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Here you can find the meaning of key terms within the Theory of Change document.
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The Violence Reduction Partnership's (VRP) Knowledge Hub are continuously striving to better understand the scale and extent of violence in West Yorkshire as well as those root causes and protective factors that may make a person more susceptible or protect them from violence involvement or exploitation.
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The Needs Assessment for the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) provides an evidence-based public health assessment of serious violence in the county, supported by the Influential Factors report. The Response Strategy provides a West Yorkshire framework for preventing and reducing serious violence.