WEEK 4 Flashcards
Compare and contrast a needs-driven approach with a capacity-focused development model
- Needs driven approach focuses on what a community needs or lacks.
- A capacity-focused development focuses on what a community already has and that can be used to improve specific outcomes.
Needs driven approach
- Community is an endless list of problems, focuses on what community needs or lacks
- Fragments the issues
- breaks down community
Capacity focused (Assets)
- Method used to achieve community development
- Internally focused, relationship driven
- Focused on community development
- Assets are harnessed from within community
- Efforts locally determined
Describe the basic steps of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model
PRECEDE
1. social assessment
2. epidemiological assessment
3. educational and ecological assessment
4. administrative and policy assessment and intervention alignment
PROCEED
5. implementation
6. process evaluation
7. impact evaluation
8. outcome evaluation
Why is evaluation important to program planning
- make better judgements
- improve effectiveness
- show how a program is operation
- is it working as intended
- has it achieved its objectives
- identify areas for improvement
Values of an asset-based approach
- starts with what is present in community
- internally focused on agenda-building and problem-solving capacities
- grounded in relationships
Role of relationships in community-based program planning
- participatory planning approach
- relationships are important to breaking down barriers in the community
- everyone has an equal voice
Assess needs and resources
NEEDS
- needs assessment
- needs of community
- needs map determines how problems should be addressed
- breakdown of community’s own problem-solving capacities
RESOURCES
- anything that can be used to improve quality of community life
- identify resources needed and available to launch and sustain program
