Some brief case studies of how DoView is being used are are being put up here. Here are five initial examples from different countries and sectors.
Case studies
Youth Justice Sector common outcomes model
Youth offending is an issue throughout the world. DoView is being used in New Zealand to develop a comprehensive outcomes model for the youth justice sector. This model was developed in a series of three half-day workshops involving representatives from all of the relevant government departments (Justice, Police, Child Youth and Family, Health, etc.). Since the group used a set of outcomes model drawing standards to develop the model it has the potential to be used for a range of purposes such as mapping all youth offending initiatives onto a common set of outcomes, identifying indicators and evaluation questions, identifying priorities, or even guiding outcomes-focused contracting. The exact way in which the model will be used in the future will be decided by the group.
Natural Resource Management in Australia
Rob Richards
"In the Natural Resource Management (Conservation) sector in Australia, myself and colleagues are teaching organizations to use DoView as one way of drawing program logic models for their work. Increasingly, different levels of government in Australia investing in natural resource management, like governments throughout the world, are using program logics. The logics provide investors, such as government, greater confidence in their investments by enabling them to set out all of the steps that will lead to outcomes that are desired in a program. The logics can also be used to surface the key assumptions that underpin the programs and for identifying evidence that can be bought to bear on the topic in question. DoView provides one way of drawing and presenting such models. We have also been able to suggest some modifications to DoView which the DoView development team have subsequently built into later releases of DoView."
Rob Richards, Natural Resource Management Principal Consultant, Clear Horizon Austrailia.
Ethiopia - community utilization of resources
"The Kotoba Sustainable Livelihoods Project is a four year project in
Tamene Hailegiorgis Gutema (for more information contact thgiorgis@yahoo.com)
Cancer health promotion - mapping projects and skills
"We are using DoView to plan our health promotion work related to cancer. We used DoView to draw up a set of models of the steps and outcomes we are trying to achieve. We then mapped our projects and also the skills needed to implement them, onto the outcomes models we built. This meant that we could get an overview of the mix of projects we are currently involved in. It also helps us to think about our strategic direction. Mapping skills onto the outcomes models has made it easier for us to present the case for additional funding for particular types of skills which are needed as we progress our health promotion work."
Adrian Knowles, Manager Health Promotion, Cancer Society of New Zealand, Auckland Division
Mexico - Prepa and Secundaria Anahuac Colima
Anahuac's award winning teachers after the national Excuelas de Calidad Contest
In the education sector in Mexico, DoView is being used at Prepa and Secundaria Anahuac Colima for strategic planning and looking at the schools' overall structure. One particular project developed an outcomes model for a program aimed at increasing student motivation. DoView was used to highlight how the program could be improved and those improvements are now in the process of being implemented.