a) BRIEFLY set the scene and summarise the problem Briefly describe the context. You are free to develop an imaginary scenario or you can describe a context with which you are familiar (though keeping to the parameters described above i.e. a region with small city, 4 towns and 150 villages). Clarify whether this is a developing or developed country setting, describe the size and nature of the target population. Setting the scene should take up no more than a paragraph. Provide a brief response to the information you have to hand (e.g. do you have any concerns about the veracity of the data available to you). Briefly describe who is at risk and why. Describe individual level, contextual level and macro level factors that may explain why the problem has arisen. Justify the need for an intervention. Use literature (preferably peer reviewed) to inform your justification. b) Propose an intervention to tackle the problem Describe the aim of your intervention and outline specific objectives. Outline the activities, giving details as to how they might be implemented. Describe the stakeholders and how they might be meaningfully involved. Describe the resources you will need to undertake them (think about roles and responsibilities, physical resources, time frames). Describe how you will ensure quality. Ensure that your plans are feasible and realistic. You do not have to provide a detailed budget but you should give a brief indication of how the £1 million will be spent in order to demonstrate that your plans are realistic.
c) Describe social, cultural, political and ethical factors that might impact on the implementation of the intervention. Describe contextual factors (social/cultural, political, ethical and practical) that might impact on the intervention. You should consider these in designing your intervention (b), but you should also describe how they will impact on your chosen design.
d) Describe the criteria by which you will judge the effectiveness of your intervention Identify one or more questions you would ask in a process evaluation question and set out measurable indicators to answer these questions. Identify two possible outcomes for an outcome evaluation and set out measurable indicators for each. Outline the evaluation design you would use. Some words of advice Choose the issue that interests you most and/or that builds on your previous professional experience. Try to keep your plans simple and practical! You are free to make any reasonable assumptions, such as confining your intervention to a particular sub-population, or assuming that you will be able to draw on external sources of expertise, but these assumptions should be explicit and justifiable. You may also make reasonable assumptions about the resources available to you (for instance that you have a
team of administrators) as well as about the existing services and infrastructure, as long as your assumptions are reasonable, justified and described clearly in the ‘scene setting’ section. You should find that all the issues you need to consider are covered in your textbook. You may wish to refer back to the Principles of Social Research textbook when choosing methods for your evaluation
