Outcomes, Monitoring and Evaluation

This document forms part of the Local Suicide Prevention Planning and Implementation Toolkit developed by Public Health Scotland.

This will support you to:-

• Understand why outcomes based working matters and advocate for an outcomes focused approach to planning, delivering and learning
• Understand how to develop outcomes and how to use them in planning
• Understand what monitoring and evaluation can do, and which approach might be most helpful
• Consider sources of data and evidence and data collection tools appropriate for monitoring and evaluation tasks
• Utilise the local area suicide prevention outcome map

This document is not intended to be a step by step guide to monitoring and evaluation, instead it draws together what we know, reflective questions to consider and links to more comprehensive resources.