Four Key Steps
Organize Research
- ❦ Identify key stakeholders
- ❦ Organize initial meeting(s)
- ❦ Determine the group’s interest in conducting an assessment
- ❦ Identify and recruit other participants, representing diverse interests and skills
- ❦ Continue to organize and engage constituents throughout project
Plan
- ❦ Review other assessments
- ❦ Determine assessment purposes and goals
- ❦ Develop an overall plan and decision- making process; clarify roles
- ❦ Define geographic and population boundaries
- ❦ Identify and secure grants, in-kind resources, and/or project sponsor
- ❦ Recruit and train staff and volunteers
❦ Develop questions and indicators
❦ Identify existing data and information
needed
❦ Develop research tools and methods ❦ Collect and analyze data
❦ Compile and summarize findings
Advocate
❦ Discuss findings with community and develop recommendations
❦ Create action plan to implement priority recommendations
❦ Clarify roles and determine whether additional partners should be recruited
❦ Develop media strategy (build relationships, frame message, create news)
❦ Disseminate findings to the public, policymakers and journalists
❦ Advocate for policymakers and others to take action based on recommendations
❦ Evaluate assessment project
For more information contact:
Raquel Bournhonesque, Community Food Security Coalition, raquel@foodsecurity.org or 310.822.5410
Funding provided by the California Department of Health Services and theCalifornia Nutrition Network, with funding support from the US Department of Agriculture.
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