Video 7: Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs

Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs

This section will provide you with an overview of Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs

Outcome(s) are the expected change(s) that happen as a result of successfully completing the project’s objective(s); typically, these changes are seen at the community/organizational level. Outcomes can include the change in the intended knowledge, awareness, attitudes, skills, behaviors, etc. ANA requires one primary outcome per objective. Outcomes are measured through the indicator(s). Indicators are directly written into the TTIP objective.

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This is video seven of the 2021 pre-application training videos, developed by the Administration for Native Americans Regional Training and Technical Assistance Centers. My name is Drena McIntyre. I'm your trainer today and I'm with the Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center offers free training and technical assistance to the 227 tribes and native non-profits located in the state of Alaska. You can reach us at www.anaalaska.org or call 800-948-3158. This is a 16-video series, designed to introduce you to the basic concept for preparing a 2021 ANA grant application to support your community-based project. There are 16 videos and we urge you to take all in sequence. This is video seven of pre-application training, project framework, discussing outcomes, indicators and outputs. Outcomes and indicators are required in your application and should describe one primary outcome per objective in a way that aligns and demonstrates what will be changed as a result of achieving your objective. The application also needs to clearly provide one indicator per primary outcome that illustrates how the project will track progress towards the primary outcome. And an outcome is the expected change within your community or organization as a result of completing the objective. You are required to have one outcome per each objective. Each outcome is measured through a viable indicator. The indicator is that I in your TTIP objective. To address these three elements, follow these five steps. State your project goal. State the outcome for each objective. State the indicator and its associated target, and that's found in your objective, and describe how your indicator, in the objective, will lead to that corresponding outcome. Describe how the outcome will result in accomplishing the project goal. The example from the Pine Creek tribe is their project goal is to produce fresh produce, cost to the community by implementing farming innovations. The outcome is community members will have increased access to affordable, fresh produce and the target and indicator for objective one are to reduce the consumer cost on a selection of six vegetables and three fruits by 40%. You can go to page 50 of the project pre-app manual to get more information about outcomes and indicators. And here again, is the example of a TTIP objective for the Pine Creek tribe. By the end of 36 months, that's their timeline, the tribal non-profit farmers' market, that's the population, will reduce the cost on a selection of six vegetables and three fruits, that's the indicator, by 40%, that's the target. And it's always good to go back to these five steps to help you address these three elements. In your narrative example, this is how the Pine Creek tribe laid out their narrative example of their outcomes and indicators. So based on the results from their community surveyed, that they conducted in 2018, they tell us how their community members stated that they would buy more fresh produce if it was affordable. And so their project goal is to reduce produce costs to the community. And then, by reaching objective one, the cost to the consumer will be reduced on a selection of six vegetables and three fruits by 40%. And then your expected outcome would be increasing the availability of affordable produce to the community. Here is an example of outcomes and indicators for a language project. Each outcome proposed aligns to one of the following categories and this is very specific if you're writing a language application. It needs to talk about increased language fluency, increased community member use of language learning resources, increased ability to deliver emersion instruction, increased capacity to implement a language program. And you can see, at the beginning of each outcome proposed, is the magic word, increased. Outputs are products and, or services that are described for your objective and you need to talk about the relevance of those outputs to your project. So outputs are tangible products or services that result from the completion of milestone activities and these will be included in your objective work plan. It helps you monitor progress toward achieving your objectives and are achievable within the established timeframe. They need to be tracked during the life of the project. So outputs are tangible products or services that result from the completion of milestone activities. Sometimes it's helpful to use this table to kind of outline your objectives resulting outputs and remember, those are products or services, and then putting what the relevance is to the project. So you would lay out your objective, what the outputs would be, and the relevance that that output would have to completing your project. For the Pine Creek tribe, again, they've just restated their objective that they have already written. The outputs that they're siting are four MOU's and that's, the relevance to those MOU's is that the farmers are agreeing to work with the co-op during the project period and they've agreed to that in their agreements. Outputs are also going to include greenhouses, hydroponic systems, raised bed systems and an organic, non-GMO practices established. The relevance is that these are the new innovations that have been discussed that will allow increase in production and reduce costs to farmers, which will be passed on to the tribal members. You can see more discussion on addressing outputs on page 46 of the manual. So on manual page 55, there's an activity, this table that I just showed you, and I'd like you to go ahead and do that for each of your objectives. List the outputs and then the relevance to completing your objective. For each, describe that significance and for each, provide a timeline for completion as well. And you might want to add a line and a section for timeline too, if that would be helpful to you. So this is the approach that we've been covering over the last several videos. We first discussed your longterm community goal, what does your native community envision for it's future, five, 10, 50 years from now? And then the current community condition, what's the main barrier currently preventing your community from taking the next step toward achieving that longterm community goal? You project goal, how will your project reduce or remove the barrier described in your current community condition? And then your TTIP objectives, describe achievable, measurable objectives that your project will accomplish to reach your project goal. And then outcomes, as a result of achieving each objective, how will the lives of community members improve? And the indicators is what metric will you use to measure progress toward achieving each objective? What is the quantifiable amount of change as indicated by your indicator metric that you will target? And then the outputs are those tangible products or services that may result from the completion of activities you will carry out in order to achieve your objective. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center is here to answer your questions and we offer 16 hours of free pre-application revue for any application that is at least 75% complete. We provide tips and resources to help you complete your application. If you would like to ask us for technical assistance, please go to www.ANAAlaska.org, click on technical assistance at the top of the page and then request TA and someone will get back to you quickly. You can also call 800-948-3158.

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Video 1: Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities

Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application

Video 3: Long-Term Community Goal

Video 4: Current Community Condition

Video 5: Project Goals

Video 6: TTIP Objectives

Video 7: Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs

Video 8: Outcome Tracker & Outcome Tracking Strategy

Video 9: Objective Work Plan

Video 10: Budget

Video 11: Community-Based Strategy

Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy

Video 13: Contingency Plans

Video 14: Sustainability Plans

Video 15: Organizational Capacity

Video 16: Submitting the Application to ANA

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