Evaluation guidance for interventions - Move Northamptonshire Framework 2023 to 2028

Sport England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities advocate the implementation of a whole-systems public health approach towards enabling physical activity opportunities. This is because opportunities to be physically active intersect across societal inequalities that cannot be addressed by one agency, department, or organisation. The World Health Organisation outlines the public health approach into four cyclical steps:

1. Understand the problem
2. Design solutions
3. Evaluate impact
4. Make it work in practice

This four-step process requires the continuous use of data, insight, and evidence to inform planning and decision-making. The use of data to design and evaluate physical activity programmes is an emerging area that Move Northamptonshire would like to develop in Northamptonshire. To help develop our understanding, Centre for Physical Activity and Life Sciences have created a framework to help guide Move Northamptonshire and its wider partners through the key steps of a programme evaluation.

Move Northamptonshire recognises that the new framework and programme evaluations are still new to the system. Therefore, there is a journey for all partners to go on to develop the capability and capacity to undertake evaluations. Move Northamptonshire will provide support to all partners to help them make better use of data, insight, evidence, and evaluation.

Move Northamptonshire would like you to use this framework through the planning, delivery, and reflection of the programme to help you share learning with system partners. The framework is intended to help you work through the steps of the public health approach by identifying, accessing, and using suitable data to plan, deliver, and evaluate programmes.