Univation

Context

Environment of the program on a local to international scale, including law, politics, social/cultural and other conditions that will have an influence on the program. (Will probably change on the long run only and irrespective of the program.)

example

Laws in the field of labor and employment promotion, unemployment rates, a society’s opinion towards unemployment

Incomes

What people targeted by the program bring with them when entering in terms of knowledge, attitude, behavior, needs, values, age, health etc. (Can be influenced by preselecting participants.)

example

Previous qualifications (or a lack thereof), experiences on the job, conditions that make search for employment difficult like addiction to drugs or alcohol, poor health etc. 

Inputs

Money, staff or other resources that are invested in a program. (Mostly influenced by the program’s sponsors.)

example

Number and qualifications of the team members who do trainings with the target group, sum of money available for hiring staff or rooms, buying appliances etc. 

Structure

Organizational structure, legal form of the institution or institutions that manage the program as well as further stakeholders/institutions and organizations involved including information about their links and responsibilities concerning the program. (Can be influenced by the selection of contractors and partners by sponsors and program managers as well.)

example

Program guidelines dictate that the program has to be put into action by a network of institutions or by a department of administration or has to include vocational schools.

Context, incomes, inputs and structure form the program’s conditions.

Concept

Theoretical design of the program: Which results are when to be achieved with which target group by which means under which conditions.

example

Project applications, curricula, etc.

System of goals

Whole of the program’s goals. Might be given on three levels as (ultimate) goals, intermediary aims and objectives of a program.

example

„Adequate services of childcare enable parents to take up jobs.“

Activities

Actions of the program’s staff, volunteers or other groups of people. These are also called interventions, when they are directly aimed at achieving goals (mostly while working with the target group). Other activities include program management, team meetings etc.

example

Interventions: trainings such as job application trainings, counselling, coaching

Outputs

Results of the program in form of countable services and products.

example

Number of participants, produced/distributed number of books or flyers about the program’s services, number of trainings or coaching sessions that have taken place

Outcomes

Intended results in the members of the target group that are caused by the program’s interventions

example

Extended knowledge about job application, skills

Impacts

Results concerning characteristics of communities, organizations, institutions or other groups of people.

example

Improved cooperation between training firms and labor administration, improved supply of trainings for people unemployed

not-intended Results

Results (outcomes or impacts) that weren’t intended by the program and are not forseeable at the start oft he program. If they are to be judged negative or positive is only to be decided retrospectively.

example

Enlarged desirability of an urban district, where lots of offers are made for people unemployed, for settlers

Outputs, outcomes and impacts form the program’s (intended or not intended) results.