Strategic Research Plan 2017–20 MEASURING FOR IMPACT Stage 2: Capacity building program As the adage goes: if you can’t measure it, The second stage of the project will focus on building you can’t improve it the evaluation skills of VCCC program managers via workshops and a coaching program. This stage will Over the next two years, the VCCC will measure the ensure the team is confident using the evaluation impact of the VCCC alliance model, as well as the system and equipped with the necessary tools and impact of current and future programs to enable us skills to develop evaluation plans, program logic to assess progress towards achieving the VCCC vision. maps and measurement models for individual programs of work. The VCCC is currently working in partnership with Stage 3: Evaluation the Centre for Program Evaluation at the University of Melbourne to co-design an evaluation system to The final stage of the project will be the production enable us to better define and measure the outcomes, of a short evaluation report on the capacity building value and impact of the alliance. program to ascertain whether it met its objectives. A mixed methods and theory-driven methodology The findings of the program and organisation level is being used to develop the evaluation system and evaluations will be used to support decision making, to deliver an evaluation capacity building program planning and reporting, and quality improvement to embed the newly developed system into VCCC to ensure the VCCC is effectively working towards business-as-usual. achieving its goals and vision. The project will be implemented in three stages: Stage 1: Building the evaluation system The first stage of this project will be to develop the VCCC evaluation system in consultation with key stakeholders to enable evaluation of: •the VCCC alliance overall •the objectives of the Strategic Research Plan •the benefits management and realisation model. 15