Logic Model and Impact New requirement for all RACs in the next - PDF document

Why now? Logic Model and Impact • New requirement for all RACs in the next Statements for NCRAC Request for Applications (RFA) • Improve communications among all Joseph E. Morris participants in NCRAC Director, North Central Regional Aquaculture Center Iowa State University • Increased need to identify impacts D. Allen Pattillo Chair, NCRAC Extension Base Workgroup • Communicate the effectiveness of the RAC Iowa State University programs to the public Sorrel Brown Iowa State University Extension University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements Where are you going? Logic model is a… How will you get there? • Picture of your program or intervention What will tell you that • Graphic representation of the “theory of you’ve arrived? action” – what is invested, what is done, and what results • Core of planning and evaluation A logic model is your Provides a common framework for your work program ROAD MAP University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements Action Plan The Logic Model Programs aren’t linear Feedback loops and multi-dimensions INPUTS OUTPUTS OUTCOMES Long- term Program Activities Participation Short Medium investments What we What we Who we What results invest do reach University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 1

Constructing logic models Summary View Begin with the end in mind… THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THE OUTCOMES Build them from right to left INPUTS OUTPUTS OUTCOMES • That way even if you don’t finish you have the information for impact statements for every Investments Activities Participation Short Medium Long project Build them for all your projects How we What we Who What will What What put into the structure makes up our target actions conditions Build them before the project begins program to our the target audience will they will educational develop it audience learn? take as a change as • That way you get the data you need program for our result of a result? activities? our Re-evaluate over time program? University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements Cost-effective, alternative protein diets for Cost-effective, alternative protein diets for rainbow trout that support optimal growth, health rainbow trout that support optimal growth, health and product quality and product quality Toward these ends, our three-year goals are to OBJECTIVES: Our long-term goals are to (1) Identify commercially available alternate ingredient (1) Develop cost effective alternative ingredient combinations that can meet the production needs of rainbow diet formulations that support maximal growth, trout health and product quality (2) Reduce interactive growth depressions when novel combinations of ingredients are utilized by refining amino (2) Increase utilization of alternative ingredients in acid balance. trout feeds by educating feed manufacturers (3) Determine how formulations in fish grown to market size regarding amino acid availabilities and influence growth, fish health, product quality and consumer retention efficiencies of synthetic amino acids. acceptance. (4) Meet stakeholders educational needs (which are?) through the development of an integrated outreach program including at least one WRAC Extension publication. University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements Action Plan Example Proposed future RAC Proposal Guidelines Are the following Outreach elements included and clearly identified? ❑ Outreach Representative within the NCR identified and consulted in the preparation of the Full Proposal? For each Objective are the following identified: ❑ Target Audiences: Who will benefit from receiving project information ❑ Intended Learning Outcomes: What will be learned from this objective ❑ Intended Management and/or Behavioral Outcomes ❑ Procedures to Achieve Intended Outcomes • Inputs: Who will do what and at what cost? •Outputs: What products will be developed and at what cost? •What publications, workshops, demonstrations, etc., will be developed? ❑ Evaluation Plan University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2

What’s all the fuss? • Cooperative Extension published a guide on how to write useful impact statements in The Importance of Impact Statements and 1971 How to Write Them • Fewer and fewer Americans involved in production agriculture • This means that fewer and fewer legislators have constituents in production agriculture • This means that public funding, both state and federal, for the land-grant system is harder and harder to come by University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements How do we get there? What do we want? Clearly defined changes as a direct result • Water usage given researched methods of the research and extension projects • Chemical composition of effluents funded • Dollars and miles saved from locally sourced products to markets • Comparison of BMPs used in research to • Water saved conventional methods, and resulting changes • Reduction in pollution / carbon footprint • Estimate increases in production, decreases in • Human and ecosystem health benefits fixed and variable costs, and acceptance of new observed procedures • Direct contact with fish farmers and monitoring • Dollars saved / increased profit aquaculture unit license changes through state • Jobs created, etc… natural resource agencies University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements Tools for Creating Impact Statements Tools for Creating Impact Statements • Surveys • MarketMaker • SurveyMonkey • Change in suppliers and retailers • State aquaculture records • Aquaculture community changes • Feed suppliers • Agriculture census • Aquaculture associations • USGS monitoring stations • Fish processor • Effluents University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation University of Wisconsin - Extension, Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 2013 North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) meeting: Logic Model and Impact Statements 3