6 Reasons You Need Tricycle
Services
Program Development
Research best practices and interventions in community context (e.g., What’s in place already and what’s needed? What are the barriers and catalysts to entry? What’s the context in which programs will be implemented? What else has been tried, and did it succeed—why and how?)
Help roll out the program (e.g., strategize what and where to pilot, determine necessary staff recruitment, assist with training, guide creation of program manuals and related materials)
Establish systems and structures for the focused collection, analysis, and reporting of implementation data that will also inform later evaluation work.
Program Expansion
Examine new contexts in which work should/will take place
Identify components necessary to replicate results in other settings
Assess costs/benefits of expanding or replicating intervention
Determine need for modifications
Evaluate need for additional staff training and resources
Provide training, materials development, and data collection and analysis in conjunction with staff
Improving Implementation
Develop strategy, metrics, and protocols to track dose, fidelity, and quality of implementation
Build capacity of staff to carry out programmatic work
Assess alignment of stated strategies and real-world efforts
Identify strengths and weaknesses of program efforts, opportunities for innovation, barriers to progress, beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of implementation, and additional levers of change
Refine intervention components and develop secondary strategies to address issues and opportunities
Evaluation of Implementation and Outcomes
Document implementation process (including services delivered and means of delivery, beneficiaries of services, constituent interactions with services, resources required for implementation, logistical challenges and resolutions, modifications and adaptations, and innovations)
Assess organization’s capacity to deliver promised outcomes
Determine what constitutes a program’s success
Enhance understanding of program’s/strategies’ value
Assess key stakeholders’ experiences and perceptions of program
Illustrate how program outcomes were achieved
“Working with Shefali Trivedi was one of my best professional experiences. In her work she consistently demonstrated a commitment to high standards and a dedication to creating tools and products that were both useful and informative to the organization, program staff, and the the schools we served. At a time when many organizations perform evaluation for evaluation’s sake, Shefali would advocate to design evaluations that provided useful and accessible feedback and that created opportunities for real program improvement. Her creative and relatable approach to research and evaluation work helped move our understanding of program impact and informed staff training.”