Developing an evaluation model to assess prevention measures

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The aim of the project is to deepen our understanding of the effectiveness and efficiency of the prevention services considering the corresponding socio-economic environment. The project will provide robust evidence and analysis to support policy-makers in understanding the impact of prevention and supports policy-makers at different administrative levels in elaborating and reshaping the selection of prevention services with providing cost effective evaluation tools. The project has a series of associated subsidiary objectives. The specific sub-goals are: - to give an assessment of prevention activities as a whole; - an “overall index”, which assesses whether the right things and in the right amount are done in a country (relevance and effectiveness); - to give an international comparison; - the value of the “index” should be comparable between countries, therefore it should be generalizable across countries, since different countries implement different activities for prevention; - to give an assessment of the trends; - the value of the index has to be found over the years, so it must be ensured that the input data is (or will be in the future) available (bi)annually; - to give an assessment to specific preventive activities; - the model must be sufficiently detailed to be able to conclude what activities and in what proportion should be changed to ensure the optimum outcome (in other words: what to change to maximize the outcome); - the components of the index should also have a meaning / interpretation on their own; - to give an assessment to the activities across target groups (school children, elderly people etc., who would be more vulnerable); - to provide an implementation model of prevention measures based on the local level collaboration with the actors - a safety pedagogic point of view will be provided as well as practical models how to conduct accident prevention effectively. The main beneficiaries of the project would be the organisations responsible for planning and implementing the prevention measures in their respective countries on national and local level as well as safety actors in European level. The direct beneficiaries will be populations of the participating countries and indirectly countries who will be adapting and using the evaluation tool afterwards.

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