Identify and Collect Good Practices
Step 7 of the Toolkit will assist you with collecting and reviewing the good practices you will use for your MIW project. This step is the most important and critical for all MIW projects.
MIW is about making significant social changes in our communities and countries. The impact of MIW is, therefore, a guide for creating broader social and political change. The question is always
* How did this happen?
* How did people inspire change?
* What was the impact?
You should always be thinking about your uptimate goals when determining the practices which will be collected.
Before your organization begins to collect good practices, it is important to do 3 preliminary tasks:
- Define what is a good practice for the context of your project. What criteria will be important to you in exploring many practices? Good practices are projects, activities, or interventions that have some level of success or innovation.
Good practices do not have to show the end results as the process in implementing programs are also valuable lessons to learn and are helpful to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the practice. Good practices may include services, policies (how they came to exist or were drafted), law reform approaches and structural systems within an organization that you think are good examples of innovative work. - What are your aims? How will the collected information impact your target population and influence policies? What is the purpose of collecting information on good practices? What types of practices will be most useful in achieving your goals?
- Physical collection: How will the practice literally be collected? What interview tool will you use? Will you hire researchers? etc.
Toolkit Step 7
Core Resources:
- Defining good practices -This document will assist you in beginning to think through how to define what is a good practice in the context of your project. Be aware that the basis for these criteria come from Articles 3 and 4 of the CRPD. Try to be specific.
This task should be done with your Steering Committee along with a brainstorm of possible practices to collect. - Collection and documentation of good practices - Your coordination team and field researchers will collect your information. Templates for collection of practices must be modified by you to address and gather the specific information you need to document. The templates below can serve as models for the level of detail and specificity it is hoped will be detailed. Remember, you can modify the templates with more detailed questions related to your thematic.
- Interview templates:
- Template 1 - This template may be useful for practices in the area of social services.
- Template 2 - This template could give you an idea for collection of practices in inclusive development.
- How to document good practices - Once collected, you will need to document your good practices into usable case studies. This will take a synthesis of ideas and perspectives from various people.
- Reviewing and selecting your good practices -Once collected, your coordinating team and Steering Committee should review the good practices and select which ones will be included in your final report.
- Documenting case studies to be used in your report - This document will assist you in documenting your case studies. See this template for a structure you can use to document your case study.
- Interview templates:
- Where to collect good practices - This document will guide you on where to look for information in collecting your good practices. Remember that for each practice, you will likely talk to more than one person or collect information from more than one source.
- Ways to collect data - Ways to collect data are outlined in this document. Be sure to also think about how to confirm that your data is reliable.
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** Include photos of your practice and people involved, whenever possible.
