Journey to the centre of the evidence!
/CHEX’s new briefing puts the onus on statutory organisations and funders to unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations.
The briefing sets out how this can be done by:
learning from the trust invested in the third sector and community organisations during the Covid-19 pandemic;
using theories of change and other models that show how community and voluntary organisations contribute to tackling health inequalities and other high-level outcomes; and
making use of participative methods which can ensure decisions and services are informed by the ‘practical wisdom’ of people in communities and those working with them.
The briefing is informed by CHEX’s discussions with a range of people with varied experience and insights around evidence. They include people from community-led health organisations as well as researchers and others working in the field of evidence. Their own ‘evidence journeys’ are presented in the briefing as mini case studies.
