Tool #3

Evidence Profile of Potential Intervention/Activity

A way to review key elements of an intervention/activity and assess the evidence that the intervention/activity under consideration is effective from the perspective of the local Joining Forces team.

SOURCE: Syntegral

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Knowing how much evidence supports an intervention/activity, and how credible that evidence is, is important for selecting interventions/activities to scale. This tool is designed to stimulate a review of the evidence and a discussion among local Joining Forces members that clarifies their standards of effectiveness and asks them to consider their standards alongside those of other stakeholders.

How to use this tool

  1. For each intervention/activity being considered for scale up, complete the evidence profile.
  2. Identify and collect the available evidence in support of the intervention/activity. Discuss the evidence, and decide which 3 findings would be considered strongest and most credible.
  3. Identify what would make the case stronger for this intervention/activity; where are there gaps in the evidence? Consider different audiences and what different actors find credible.

Children’s Engagement

As with every aspect of Joining Forces program implementation, the voices of children are critical. When using this tool Joining Forces seeks children’s engagement in two distinct ways: 1) integrating information about children’s views and perspectives as it relates to the tool’s topic and 2) as a source of data for each tool. Locating opportunities for child participation and child safeguarding (as separate and complementary) is a shared responsibility of all Joining Forces partners. While children and their families may not be familiar with formal evidence of an intervention/activity’s effectiveness, they can nonetheless share their views of how it has impacted their lives and the degree to which they are in agreement on that impact. Other ideas for generating ideas from children can be found in the “Tools and Techniques for Children’s Engagement” compendium provided at the end of this guide. Also, it is important to consider research or evidence that has been generated by children, or that has engaged children as participants.