Project Managers' Guide to Performance Measurement and Evaluation

Appendix 3: Road Map for Expert Consultation Project

Goal

Improve the justice sector's response to family violence.

Objective

  • Identify priority issues in family violence where justice-related knowledge development is needed.
  • Focus knowledge development activities on identified priorities.

Consultation

Activities

  • Identify key experts including those with expertise related to specific population groups or living contexts
  • Conduct consultation meetings to identify priority research issues
  • Distribute, collect and compile results of meeting evaluation forms
  • Prepare meeting report

Target Groups

  • Experts
  • Policy and decision makers

Outputs

  • Agenda
  • Consultation questions
  • Consultation package
  • Meeting evaluation form
  • Meeting report
  • Meeting evaluation report

Immediate outcomes (6 mo - 1 year)

  • Availability of meeting report and evaluation results
  • Identification of priority issues

Research Planning

Activities

  • Analyze results of consultation meeting to determine implications for research planning.
  • Identify opportunities for collaboration
  • Develop a research plan to address identified priorities

Target Groups

  • Experts
  • Policy and decision makers

Ouputs

Research plan

Immediate outcomes (6 mo - 1 year)

Availability of research plan to address priority issues

Dissemination

Activities

Disseminate research plan to meeting participants

Target Groups

  • Experts
  • Policy and decision makers

Outputs

Distribution records

Immediate outcomes (6 mo - 1 year)

Copies of research plan distributed to all meeting participants

Intermediate outcomes (1-2 years)

  • Increased awareness of research priorities among experts
  • Increased awareness of research plan to address priorities among experts

Long-term outcome

Improved justice sector response to family violence