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Evaluation stragegy
The Pompidou Group takes evaluation seriously and aims to ensure that all its projects are evaluated. For the Parent’s Support Network, the evaluation is examining different aspects of the project, including its management and the work in the three pilot areas. Characteristics of the key participants have been collected, and outcomes of the work will be measured.
Evaluation activities already completed
After the initial training events in the three pilot areas, a post-course evaluation telephone interview was conducted. A report on the results of these interviews is available. (click here to link to SN2005-10E Evaluation Report). At the joint training event in Helsinki in April 2005 our two Russian-speaking evaluators participated as observers and conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants and unstructured interviews with the organisers and experts.Our evaluators also participated in the training in Oslo with the participants from Chelyabinsk.
Outcomes
A key question for any evaluation is: ‘Has anything changed as a result of the intervention?’ In this evaluation, as in most others, it will be difficult to identify changes specifically attributable to the Project. However, there is already evidence that the Project is stimulating concrete activities, such as new or improved websites, and local training events. We will be reporting on these developments later in the programme, attempting to assess their impact.
For more information on the evaluation, please contact Mr Richard Ives
Published 25 Oct, 2005 by Richard Ives
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Support Network for parents
and professionals - Training
seminars in Oslo and Helsinki,
28 May - 12 June 2005
23 practitioners involved in the Drug Prevention Support Network for parents and professionals participated in two training seminars organised by the Pompidou Group in Oslo  and Helsinki, from 28 May to 12 June 2005. They represented both the statutory sector and NGOs from the Hanti-Mansiisk, Kurgan and Chelyabinsk regions of the Russian Federation.
The general aim of these seminars was to serve as forums where participants could share their experiences and exchange their views on the implementation of the project, assess progress and develop future action plans. The results of the assessment process will be made available in July 2005.
The Oslo seminar, which was directed at a group of practitioners from Chelyabinsk, focused more specifically on setting up self-help groups and on outreach work. From 28 May to 4 June, Norwegian experts in the field, Carol Ann Cortese and Arne Schanche Andresen, provided the training. The seminar also included extensive field trips and on-the-spot experience of different self-help models both in the urban and rural environment.
The Chelyabinsk group subsequently joined the other participants from Hanti-Mansiisk and Kurgan in the Finnish capital.
 The Helsinki seminar covered a variety of subjects, which were dealt with during specific training sessions organised by Finnish experts Teuvo Peltoniemi and Antti Järventaus, and British expert Richard Ives.
Subjects covered included an introduction to various methods of drug prevention, training on the role of new communication technologies in drug prevention, website design, communication skills and outreach work.
The agenda of the seminar also included visits to NGOs providing rehabilitation, prevention and support for parents and young people in Finland, and a presentation by an expert from the National Public Health Institute of Finland on HIV/AIDS prevention work among drug addicts.
 A project group meeting was devoted to the development of a Virtual Training and Resource Centre (VTRC) and to an analysis of the results obtained to date. The meeting was attended by a representative of the Swiss authorities, one of the major donors to the project.
Future priorities for the Support Network project will include establishing self-help groups, developing training materials and resources in the summer-autumn 2005, launching the Support Network Internet portal, as well as evaluating project results in 2006.
Published 5 Sept, 2005 by Sergei Bazarya
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The implementation of the
Pilot Project 'Website' has started!
Teuvo Peltoniemi and Antti Järventaus, internet and prevention experts from Finland, arrived with their Russian colleagues Alexej Chingin and Oleg Votintsev in Hanti-Manssiisk to start imlpementing the  pilot project Website. They were welcomed by the key contact person Okrug, Mrs Nadezhda Kazakova,Deputy Chairman of Interagency Commission on Counteraction to Drug Abuse.
Before starting the first training session with specialists from Hanti-Mansiisk they had official meetings with Mrs Natalia Zapadnova, Deputy Chairman of the Government and Prof. Gennady Erokhin, Director of the Ugra Research Institute for Information Technologies and his team. The expert delegation was headed by Dr. Thomas Kattau from the Pompidou Group at the Council of Europe.
 On the second and third day of their visit the experts conducted the initial training session in which Nadezhda Kazakova, Yana Katshalskaya, Ludmilla Evonareva, Ivan Volkov, Mrs Elena Potekhina and Anastasia Varakina participated in their capacities as specialists. The participants constitute the implementation team in Hanti-Mansiisk for the website project.
After the departure of the expert delegation the team will now undertake conceptual planning, requirement assessments and risk analysis before the next training session in June 2005.
Published 24 Feb 2005 by Thomas Kattau
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