Ecological or carbon footprint calculators provide a tool to calculate deemed savings based on answers to a set of questions. Theoretically, a footprint calculator can be used to evaluate a participant’s footprint before and after an intervention. The ecological footprint calculator provides an aggregate measure of environmental impact based on a set of limited questions […]
Deemed savings refers to using equations or factors to calculate resource consumption savings from a range of actions. The calculations are developed from a set of assumptions that should reflect an average scenario for the action or behaviour. Ecological and carbon footprint calculators use deemed savings to calculate changes to footprints. The Victorian Government Black
Questionnaires are one of the most common and popular tools to gather data from a large number of people. A good questionnaire can be a powerful tool to inform your evaluation, and a poorly designed questionnaire can make life difficult for both those that have to complete it, and those that have to analyse the
Audits refer to undertaking counts, whether they are of fixtures, appliances, materials, or waste. The main types of audits in behaviour change programs relate to energy, water and waste. Audits can be undertaken through home visits or through self-reporting done via a questionnaire. Home visits are best used to collect information on one-off changes, such
This case study reviews the evaluation of the Knox Greenleaf residential sustainability workshops using the ORID (Observation, Reflection, Insights, Decisions) process. These ORID focus group sessions were conducted on the 13th and 20th August 2009, and were undertaken as part of Knox’s participation in the Local Sustainability Accord-funded project to develop an evaluation toolkit for
Collecting residential billing data In 2008/09 Knox City Council Greenleaf participants were asked to provide billing information (gas, electricity and water) at each session as a means of collecting quantitative data to measure the success of the program. In order to encourage residents, an incentive was provided in which participants were entered into a competition
Introduction The Shire of Gannawarra and its stakeholder partners are in the process of finalising the design of a community engagement and behaviour change program funded under the Victorian State Government’s Local Government Sustainability Accord. The program, called Living Green in Gannawarra & Surrounds (LGG), is a two year sustainable living program that is being
A stakeholder analysis provides a means to identify the relevant stakeholders and assess their views and support for the proposed project. A stakeholder can be defined as any individuals, groups of people, institutions or organisations that may have a significant interest in the success or failure of a potential project around the issue of concern.
What tools should you use to collect monitoring data for your project? It all depends. Unfortunately there is no magical rule or formula to follow, however once we know what data we need to collect to answer our evaluation questions, some logical choices present themselves. When should I select the monitoring tools for my project?
Case studies are an excellent way of to learn from the real experience of other projects and see how they have applied evaluation tools in real life. What worked, what didn’t, how did you do it, what would you do differently next time? During the development of the toolbox we collected some case studies to
