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Presenting: Our Evaluation Results!

This final issue of Projects Plus presents highlights of the regional evaluation of the diabetes Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program in Atlantic Canada.

Every organization that received funding from the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program was responsible for evaluating and reporting on its own project. Early on in the program, however, the Public Health Agency of Canada (at the time, Health Canada), provincial partners, and project sponsors worked together to plan an Atlantic-wide evaluation. The purpose of the regional evaluation was to examine the implementation of the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program in the Atlantic Region.

The evaluation focused on three strategies common to many of the projects: a population health approach, capacity building, and partnership development. It also looked at lasting impacts of the projects. This issue of Projects Plus summarizes the results of the regional evaluation in each of these areas.

We hope the information in this issue will encourage organizations involved in diabetes and chronic disease prevention to build on the accomplishments of projects funded through the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program.

The purpose of the regional evaluation was to examine the implementation of the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program in the Atlantic Region.

What is the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program? The Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program was one component of the federally-funded Canadian Diabetes Strategy. The Program provided project funding for community projects aimed at the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes. It was launched in April 2000 and was scheduled to end in March 2005. In the February 2005 federal budget, the Canadian Diabetes Strategy was renewed for an additional 5 years, until March 2010. Details about how the renewed strategy will be rolled out in the Atlantic Region will soon be available through the PHAC Atlantic Regional Office. During the first five-year funding period, over $2 million dollars were spent in Atlantic Canada to fund 32 community projects. The evaluation reported in this issue of Projects Plus includes all Atlantic projects funded by the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program in the initial four years of the program, that is: between April 2000 and March 2004.

 

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