Addressing health inequalities through engagement with people and communities

Summary

Develop clear, co-designed evaluation plans to measure the impact of engagement on health inequalities.

Link to health inequalities

Clear evaluation planning ensures transparent, structured measurement and analysis of work with people and communities. Co-design results in better quality evaluation by ensuring what is being measured is relevant to people and communities and the suitability of the approach.

Activities, skills and resources

Emerging

• Define general evaluation aims for engagement activities.
• Include limited detail on data collection methods and timelines.
• Plan evaluations primarily through internal stakeholders like commissioners and service providers.

Developing

• Define specific evaluation questions, including what outcomes will be measured.
• Specify how, when, and who will collect data.
• Invite people and communities to review key aspects of the evaluation plan.

Maturing

• Develop evaluation plans that detail aims, key questions, and indicators for outcomes.
• Specify how, when, and who will analyse and share collected data.
• Sense-check all aspects of evaluation plans with people and communities, to ensure the proposed approach reflects their needs and priorities.

Thriving

• Co-create evaluation plans with people and communities from the outset.
• Actively involve people and communities in the evaluation process.