NHS Health Scotland have undertaken a DBI evaluability assessment, which involves mapping out the links and logic between the proposed activities and intervention associated with DBI and the anticipated short, intermediate and long term outcomes that the intervention is aiming to achieve.
Developed by a sub-group including DBI programme Partners, Scottish Government, University of Glasgow and external expert advice, with support from NHS Health Scotland, the evaluability assessment describes the theory of change and 13 desired outcomes for the programme, together with the evaluation questions these outcomes raise and potential data sources. On the basis of the information available it proposes a number of evaluation options. The evaluability assessment was signed off by the DBI Programme Board in December 2016 and has subsequently been published.
The Scottish Government have used the evaluability assessment to commission an independent evaluation, supported by an evaluation sub group.
