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Systems & culture change through RBA:

A recipe for success

Janine PhillipsJenny Philip-Harbutt

September 2015

Community Partnership Planning

Acknowledgement of country

“We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the

traditional owners and custodians of this land. We respect

their spiritual relationship with their country, and

acknowledge that the cultural heritage beliefs are still

important today."

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What to cook?

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DECD and Collective Impact

• Reform agenda – outcome focussed, local

decision making

• New partnership structure

• Strategic plan

• Data driven planning initiatives

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The recipe – Community Partnership Planning (CPP)

Two member team provides:

• Planning facilitation – partnership and community

forums

• Advice and mentoring

• Partnership brokerage

• Written resource

Community Partnership Planning

Key ingredients

• Data

• Story

• Partners

• Time

• Resources

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Method

Community Partnership Planning

Challenges – operational

• Keeping outcomes focussed

• Data and indicators

• What works?

• Performance measures and shared

measurement systems

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Challenges - systemic

• Size and positioning of the team

• Focus on pedagogy

• Influential nay-sayers

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Improving the recipe – evaluating CPP

How much did we do?

• # of forums plans produced - 8 (2014) 5 (2015)

• # of forum participants – 330, 17% children and young people (2014)

305, 10% children and young people (2015)

• # of agencies represented at forums -172 (2014), 127 (2015)

• # of occasions of service - 310 (2014), 632 (2015)

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Improving the recipe – evaluating CPPHow well did we do it? • Satisfaction score for presenters - 8 “Great process!”

“It’s good to be able to have robust discussions”

• % of forum participants who report collaborative relationships are being formed - 75%• % of forum participants who report their collective actions will make a difference - 58% “Fantastic opportunity to start a culture of collaborating as we work towards the best

community outcomes imaginable!”

“…. the actions planned through collective responses seemed like they could make a

difference”

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Improving the recipe – evaluating CPP

Is anyone better off?

• % of partnership committees demonstrating phase 1 of Collective

Impact?

72% (most of these between phase 1 and 2)

• % of partnership committees achieving results

Too soon – but many ‘up-stream’ actions implemented

Community Partnership Planning

Tips

• Keep focussed on the data – why we’re here

• Support the collection of performance measure data

• Co-design

• Executive and action groups

• Evaluate as you go – but don’t expect outcomes too

soon

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Tips

• Create a group of influential champions

• Build strong links with data people

• Build the political environment

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Community Partnership Planning

Contact us

Community Partnership Planning team jenny.philip-harbutt2@sa.gov.au (08) 8463 7505

janine.phillips2@sa.gov.au (08) 8226

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www.decd.sa.gov.au/cpp