Evaluation of the BC Healthy Living Alliance (BCHLA) Initiatives
BCHLA is a provincial coalition of organizations working together to improve the health of British Columbians. The coalition has implemented 16 initiatives in the health promotion and population health areas, designed to deliver activities across the province in three themes: Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Tobacco Reduction. In the first phase of the evaluation project, SRDC conducted evaluability assessments for each initiative as well as the clusters or themes to produce evaluation plans and budgets for “evaluable” projects and clusters. In the second phase, SRDC evaluated 6 of the 16 initiatives, as well as a case study of the Community Capacity Building Strategy and provided technical assistance to the other BCHLA initiatives that were not part of the evaluation project. Some of the evaluations involved vulnerable populations, such as Aboriginal communities.
Project Details
Capability: Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement
Policy Area: Community Capacity, Health - Health Services - Population Health
Population: Communities and Families - Children - Students - Youth
Start Date: July 2007
Completion Date: May 2010
Sponsors: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
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