Partnership Health Check Tool and Reflective Process

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

Who funded the project

 

Karabena Consulting was engaged by VACCHO through a competitive tender process to support the organisation develop a partnership evaluation tool and process, to independently measure the ‘health’ of their partnerships and the extent to which they are enabling self-determination. This involved conducting a desktop review, co-developing a partnership evaluation tool, and facilitating independent reflection workshops with VACCHO and its participating partners.

Summary

 

The aim of the project was to:

  • support VACCHO to develop a tool and process to measure the ‘health’ of their partnerships and the extent to which they are enabling self-determination

  • develop case studies based on the partnerships between VACCHO and their key stakeholders to reflect what quality, self-determining partnerships look like in practice

Project Aims

 

To complete the project, Karabena Consulting:

  • Conducted a desktop review of existing partnership evaluation tools and best practice principles for self-determining partnerships

  • Co-developed a partnership health check tool with VACCHO and its participating partners

  • Analysed the results of the partnership health check completed by VACCHO and its partners

  • Facilitated two independent reflection workshops that were attended by VACCHO and its partners

  • Developed a report containing two case studies to document the partnership evaluation process and learnings from the reflection workshops

Methodologies

 

This project has delivered an approach that VACCHO, its partners (and other Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations) can replicate and/or adapt to measure the ‘health’ of its partnerships in a respectful, culturally inclusive and reflective way.

Methodological outcomes

 

The key outputs for this project were:

  • Summary report of desktop review findings

  • VACCHO Partnership Health Check Tool

  • Report containing two case studies

Outputs

 

Through this project, Karabena Consulting has supported VACCHO and its participating partners to gain a deeper understanding of and move towards greater self-determination in their partnerships. By undertaking independent health checks and participating in reflection workshops, VACCHO and its partners have identified their partnerships’ strengths, areas of improvement and ways to strengthen their existing partnerships.

Project Outcomes

 

VACCHO enjoyed working with Karabena on the development of a partnership health-check tool and reflective process.

Karabena were accommodating and flexible in working with us and understanding of our changing circumstances.

Kerry’s facilitation style was warm and inclusive, creating space for everyone to participate and feel comfortable.

Communication with Karabena was always easy, assisted by the effective use of Basecamp, and deliverables were submitted to schedule.

Thanks for all your work on this project.

Sophie Purdue, Strategic Projects & Evaluation Coordinator, Strategic Projects Team, VACCHO

Testimonial

 

Self-determination; VACCHO; Partnerships; Partnership health check tool; Partnership evaluation; Equity; Sustainable relationships; Community-control; Participatory action research

Key Words

Camille Gonza