what do you understand by criteria what are the two ways to specify criteria
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criteria is a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
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what are the two ways to specify criteria
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A community needs assessment is meant to bring to light issues in the community that need to be addressed. However, it’s unlikely that all those issues can be dealt with at the same time. You have to make choices about what’s most important and timely to deal with…but how do you decide what “important” means? Who gets to choose, and how? And once those choices have been made, how do you decide on the ways to address the issues you’ve identified as most urgent?
If you make those decisions well, your eventual action plan will effectively target the real needs of the community. In this section, we’ll discuss how you might go about choosing criteria for deciding which issues are most important to address and for deciding on the best strategies for addressing them. We’ll also look at how to develop processes for doing the choosing that are likely to result in good decisions and community support for your effort.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY DEVELOPING AND USING CRITERIA AND PROCESSES TO SET PRIORITIES?
First, let’s define some terms:
Criteria are standards for making a judgment. They provide guidelines for making decisions. They aren’t set in stone: the criteria you use for examining a particular set of issues may be different from those you us for another set, depending on the community you’re aiming at, the conditions that are in place at the time of the decision, the needs and concerns of the people making the decision, and other factors.
Priority is the order of importance in which one thing falls in relation to another. Like a set of criteria, priorities may change with changes in the community, or with changes in people’s concerns or knowledge.
When a community assessment has uncovered a number of issues – perhaps issues in different areas, such as health, economics, and racial attitudes – developing a set of criteria for deciding how important each one is to address is crucial to effective action. Without considering what its standards are beforehand, a planning group may be reduced to each member’s intuition or particular pet issue, and descend into argument and eventual chaos. That’s a worst-case scenario, but any level of confusion or aimless flailing can be avoided by establishing some agreed-upon criteria for determining what to tackle when.
There are two sets of criteria needed here. One will provide the guidelines for choosing one or more issues to work on. The second will help you determine what strategies and approaches are likely to be most effective in addressing the issues you’ve chosen. We’ll suggest some examples of each in the “how-to” part of the section.
The other necessary ingredient for cooking up a successful intervention or initiative is a decision-making process that will allow a planning group to choose criteria and approaches rationally and wisely.
In general, the ideal process is participatory and inclusive, involving all stakeholders – those affected by or concerned with the issues at hand – and the community at large. It’s best if it includes both people with technical expertise in the relevant fields – health, social policy, employment, etc. – and people grounded in the community. With that mix, criteria are likely to reflect best practices and good theory as well as real community needs, wishes, and norms.
To ensure community support, the fact that there is an inclusive process, developed at least in part by input from the participants in it, may be as important as the actual form of the process.
WHY DEVELOP AND USE CRITERIA AND PROCESSES TO SET PRIORITIES?
It creates a structure that makes setting priorities more systematic and more likely to reflect the realities of the community.
It helps ensure the most important issues for your community are addressed. Using a set of criteria and a good decision-making process makes it much more probable that you’ll get the priorities right.
It provides an opportunity to involve the community in the effort and to get community buy-in. Any effort is far more likely to succeed if the community feels ownership of it and supports it.
An inclusive criteria-setting process makes sure you don’t miss anything that only stakeholders know. Community members, especially those most affected by issues, may have a clearer understanding of what’s important to the community and of which issues actually have the greatest impact on people’s lives.
Establishing criteria in a structured and inclusive way ensures that the process is an open one, and that any concerns are raised. It is essential to include those who are most affected by the problem.
The process of selecting criteria allows an opportunity to educate stakeholders who may not have had this kind of experience before about how to make informed, systematic decisions.
Its Lovv roy
A community needs assessment is meant to bring to light issues in the community that need to be addressed. However, it’s unlikely that all those issues can be dealt with at the same time. You have to make choices about what’s most important and timely to deal with…but how do you decide what “important” means? Who gets to choose, and how? And once those choices have been made, how do you decide on the ways to address the issues you’ve identified as most urgent?
If you make those decisions well, your eventual action plan will effectively target the real needs of the community. In this section, we’ll discuss how you might go about choosing criteria for deciding which issues are most important to address and for deciding on the best strategies for addressing them. We’ll also look at how to develop processes for doing the choosing that are likely to result in good decisions and community support for your effort.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY DEVELOPING AND USING CRITERIA AND PROCESSES TO SET PRIORITIES?
First, let’s define some terms:
Criteria are standards for making a judgment. They provide guidelines for making decisions. They aren’t set in stone: the criteria you use for examining a particular set of issues may be different from those you us for another set, depending on the community you’re aiming at, the conditions that are in place at the time of the decision, the needs and concerns of the people making the decision, and other factors.
Priority is the order of importance in which one thing falls in relation to another. Like a set of criteria, priorities may change with changes in the community, or with changes in people’s concerns or knowledge.
When a community assessment has uncovered a number of issues – perhaps issues in different areas, such as health, economics, and racial attitudes – developing a set of criteria for deciding how important each one is to address is crucial to effective action. Without considering what its standards are beforehand, a planning group may be reduced to each member’s intuition or particular pet issue, and descend into argument and eventual chaos. That’s a worst-case scenario, but any level of confusion or aimless flailing can be avoided by establishing some agreed-upon criteria for determining what to tackle when.
There are two sets of criteria needed here. One will provide the guidelines for choosing one or more issues to work on. The second will help you determine what strategies and approaches are likely to be most effective in addressing the issues you’ve chosen. We’ll suggest some examples of each in the “how-to” part of the section.
The other necessary ingredient for cooking up a successful intervention or initiative is a decision-making process that will allow a planning group to choose criteria and approaches rationally and wisely.
In general, the ideal process is participatory and inclusive, involving all stakeholders – those affected by or concerned with the issues at hand – and the community at large. It’s best if it includes both people with technical expertise in the relevant fields – health, social policy, employment, etc. – and people grounded in the community. With that mix, criteria are likely to reflect best practices and good theory as well as real community needs, wishes, and norms.
To ensure community support, the fact that there is an inclusive process, developed at least in part by input from the participants in it, may be as important as the actual form of the process.
WHY DEVELOP AND USE CRITERIA AND PROCESSES TO SET PRIORITIES?
It creates a structure that makes setting priorities more systematic and more likely to reflect the realities of the community.
It helps ensure the most important issues for your community are addressed. Using a set of criteria and a good decision-making process makes it much more probable that you’ll get the priorities right.
It provides an opportunity to involve the community in the effort and to get community buy-in. Any effort is far more likely to succeed if the community feels ownership of it and supports it.
An inclusive criteria-setting process makes sure you don’t miss anything that only stakeholders know. Community members, especially those most affected by issues, may have a clearer understanding of what’s important to the community and of which issues actually have the greatest impact on people’s lives.
Establishing criteria in a structured and inclusive way ensures that the process is an open one, and that any concerns are raised. It is essential to include those who are most affected by the problem.
The process of selecting criteria allows an opportunity to educate stakeholders who may not have had this kind of experience before about how to make informed, systematic decisions.
Its Lovv roy
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