Community Learning and Development Managers Scotland is keen to invite all members and other interested parties to comment on two issues: Five ‘strategic choices’ on evalauting the impact of CLD and the issues and priorities for community capacity building :

The Five ‘strategic choices’ are posed in a report on ‘Evaluating the Impact of CLD on National and Local Outcomes’ produced by Blake Stevenson for Learning and Teaching Scotland  and CLDMS:

• do we want to see greater consistency across Scotland in evidencing impact?
• do we want to evidence the impact of CLD as a whole entity or is it enough to evidence the three elements separately?
• do we want impact to be evidenced across partners?
• where and how can the qualitative impact of CLD best be captured: is it through the Single Outcome Agreement or is it through some other vehicle?
• how do areas which are further behind with evidencing outcomes and impact get supported?

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The issues and priorities for community capacity building, include:

• Networking: Broaden understanding of who the capacity builders are and encourage debate among practitioners
• Linking to national and local policy: Encourage a national debate on the outcomes from community capacity building
• Making the Case and providing evidence.

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