Improving Community Engagement in Health
EVALGUÍA is a tool designed to analyze and increase community engagement in health promotion projects, thereby contributing to improving people’s health and well-being and reducing health inequalities.
[The term “project” refers to all those programs, projects, interventions, processes, community initiatives, and other actions carried out to promote health.]
It is a facilitating and supportive tool, not a tool to feel under evaluation. It aims to help us, through reflection and dialogue, to generate a self-critical perspective on what we are doing about engagement, how we are doing it, with what results, and how we can improve.
EVALGUÍA can also be used to enhance community participation in the Local Health Councils, serving as one of the “tools” included in the Health Council Roadmap for Aragón. EVALGUÍA makes it possible to evaluate how we participate in our Health Council.
Click on the video to discover how it can support you.
VALGUÍA is structured into two sets of questions:
GENERAL QUESTIONS: Four questions to help us understand who makes or has made, the main decisions about what to do and how throughout the project;
It is recommended to use EVALGUÍA in a group session, with all those people who make or can make decisions related to the project. This includes management staff, professionals who work day-to-day on the project, and community members who are part of it.
The analysis can be carried out in two ways:
First individually, and then sharing the results and reflections at the group level, comparing the different responses and scores that each person has given in each section, and choosing a final score for each section (by consensus or taking the average of the individual scores).
Directly as a group, ensuring that everyone can express their opinions and comments.
After completing the EVALGUÍA questions, you are invited to reflect on what changes you want to see or implement in your project to improve community engagement. You will have tools available to facilitate the prioritization of the areas you want to improve and to plan actions in each area.
Additionally, you will have access to examples and resources that will help you carry out actions for your project based on the results of your evaluation.
After answering all the questions that EVALGUÍA asks and reflecting on the changes we want to implement, the tool automatically provides the following results:
According to what you have outlined in your action plan, you can fill out EVALGUÍA again after a few months to see if there have been any changes and how community engagement has improved in your project.
Once you have registered the project on this website, you can access more resources to organize and facilitate the sessions to implement EVALGUÍA.
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