Solution/Intervention: How?
Describe the solution you’re working on to address the challenge (or a potential solution)
Impact Evaluation Worksheet
Inputs
Inputs are all things and resources to be put in place in order to enable activities.
Fill in: Either quantitative metrics or anecdotal evidence about your inputs; ex. Amount of funding, level of leadership buy-in, readiness of technical tools, etc.
Activities
Activities are actions you’ve taken to achieve the objectives of the intervention.
Fill in: Metrics describing how well you performed not only these activities, but also activities that might create the right environment or necessary conditions for results. Examples: # of agencies involved, # of meetings, etc.
Outputs
Outputs are tangible and intangible products/ services that result from intervention (short-term).
Fill in: Those immediate things achieved - for example, tools built, # of online services available, # of citizens participating in public decisions, etc. Operational success metrics
Outcomes
Outcomes are changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of citizens, businesses, and public servants you observe in the short-medium term that are directly resulting from the project’s outputs.
Fill in: Metrics towards your key policy or performance targets. Policy success metrics.
Impacts
Impacts are the actual or intended changes in higher-level strategic goals and/or community well-being at the local level.
Fill in: Value-driven goals that your project team holds and/or wants to work toward; Think about how this looks in wider society; Quality-of-life success metrics.
Problem: What and Why?
Describe the challenge you’re working on and why you selected it.
Expected Impact: Who and What?
Think long-term – Who and what are going to change as a result of this intervention?
Metrics
Solution/Intervention: How?
An interactive map that allows residents to see the existing and proposed bike lanes in their neighborhood, and play with transit scenarios of potential new bike routes, then submit the results to the planning department.
Impact Evaluation Worksheet
Inputs
- # of participating community members in the design process
- demographic statistics about bike ridership in low-income neighborhoods
- # of survey responses to a community survey about public transit infrastructure
Activities
- # of community meetings, town halls, and/or group discussions about the bike lanes issue
- # of meetings held by the project team
- # of city departments involved in the design process
- # of phone calls made to residents for feedback
Outputs
- # of users of the prototype version of map
- # of neighborhoods with complete & high-quality bike lane data represented in the beta version
- # of accompanying resources for the interactive map (data 101, bike lane 101)
- # of community education meetings about the project
Outcomes
- # of proposals submitted to the city planning department with new bike lanes
- # of new bike lanes built based on proposals
- # of residents engaged in city planning of bike lanes via interactive map or add’l public meetings
- # of bike riders in low-income neighborhoods
Problem: What and Why?
People can’t access bike lanes from points of interest in the city, and low-income neighborhoods as well as predominantly non-white neighborhoods have the least investment in public transit infrastructure.
Impacts
- % healthy people based on public health indicators in nbhds with bike lanes
- # of medical visits due to lack of exercise/sun exposure in nbhds with bike lanes
- # of people able to get to work in <30 minutes
- # of overall people using public transit system
Expected Impact: Who and What?
Residents from neighborhoods with less investment in public transit will have the opportunity to propose data-informed projects that meet their needs directly to decision-making authorities at the City.
Solution/Intervention: How?
Impact Evaluation Worksheet
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Outcomes
Impacts
Problem: What?
Expected Impact: Who and Why?