Improving Local Drug Prevention Plans: A Continuous Learning Space

Main objective:

The aim of the guide is to provide a useful and applied tool to guide the design, monitoring and evaluation processes of prevention programmes. The guide will serve as a simple and intuitive basis to guide and advise those entities that wish to improve the quality of their programmes.

Summary:

Based on the Logic Model methodology, the guide explains, step by step, the phases to be followed to design, monitor and evaluate prevention programmes. Ultimately, the implementation of a Logic Model of intervention involves the creation of a quality planning and evaluation system that guarantees the logical interconnection between the different components of the programme. As the EMCDDA points out in “European quality standards for drug prevention”, the development of a logic model will increase the potential effectiveness of intervention programmes by ensuring coordination and internal coherence between:

1. The needs identified, the objectives of the programmes and the indicators
2. The indicators and theoretical models on which the intervention is based (working hypotheses).
3. The objectives, the specific actions planned and the resources available.
4. The objectives, indicators and expected results.

Keywords:

Evaluation, evidence, good practice, quality, public policy, prevention programmes, processes, implementation, monitoring, gender perspective, logical model, diagnosis, guidelines, protocols.