Therefore, tools to evaluate partnerships need to include culturally appropriate and community relevant outcomes.
First, case studies from the literature on government community partnerships for strengthening programmes in sectors other than health in LMICs, and possibly in certain settings in industrialized countries, can provide new insights about how to structure, manage, execute and evaluate partnerships for CHWs.
This study was designed for participants to evaluate partnership relations and activities.
The results from this methodology development and implementation study provided researchers and partnership participants a new means to (a) evaluate partnership activities, (b) identify institutional barriers, (c) plan future activities, and (d) listen to and incorporate the ideas of less vocal staff members into the planning of future activities.
Evaluating partnerships will also allow these groups to improve their STEGH in ensuring their responsible conduct and in achieving desired host community outcomes of improved health and wellbeing.
Paterson & Telykov [ 12], Bouscharain & Moreau [ 13] and Doyle & Kelly [ 6, 14] in evaluating partnership programmes all used either the OECD/DAC evaluation criteria for development programmes or a logic model framework.
Research questions focused on assessing the meaning, values and outcomes of partnerships, as well as techniques for partnership building across different sectors and evaluating partnership outcomes.
Interestingly programs focused on evaluating partnership dynamics; Families First, Stronger Families and Communities and Best Start, reported a range of positive outcomes along the continuum of partnership arrangements.
Third, it is important in designing, maintaining and evaluating partnership processes to take account of factors affecting the effectiveness of partnership at individual, organisation and contextual/system levels.
Longstaff [ 16] used the KSF framework to evaluate international partnerships, demonstrating that the knowledge and skills gained from international partnership working fitted well with the core dimensions of the KSF, particularly in relation to the domains of c ommunication, personal development, and e quality and diversity.
For Internet companies, they consider customer volume and sales growth and evaluate business partnerships.
