To-Do: A way of integrating the newcomers

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The impact evaluation focuses on what is important for if the To-Do Seminars to meet the intention to generate new ideas, networks and activities in the local community. This part of the report is based on identifying if and why the participants perceive the method as productive, what they consider good and bad from the completed seminars, the reports of the coordinators and a cross-sectional analysis of the three seminars. The Data Various methods have been used in the data collection to address the different aspects of the To-Do Seminars and their desired results. The relation between the material / data used and To-Do is shown in figure 3. Material from the completed seminars (the red circle). This material provides knowledge about how the seminars were organized and identifies ‘Output’: the challenges, visions and concrete ideas for action that were formulated during the seminars. The data consists of invitations describing the intention, target group, program, participant lists and minutes from the various workshop sessions via analogue and digital boards. Questionnaire survey among participants (the blue circle). This material provides knowledge about the participants' experience of the seminars and the ‘Outcome’: have the seminars resulted in new ideas, contacts and activities? The data consists of results from a questionnaire that all participants received after the seminars.

Follow-up interviews with participants indicating that they have planned, initiated or completed activities (the orange circle). This material clarifies knowledge about the Outcome of the seminars. In the questionnaire, participants who indicated that they are in the process of or have completed an activity based on To-Do were asked if we could call them to learn more about the project. Eight follow-up telephone interviews have been conducted in the first quarter of 2017. In the interviews, the participants were asked about the nature, purpose, participants and result evaluation of the project. In addition, the informants were asked to send written project descriptions if they had any. Questionnaire and follow-up meetings with coordinator (the green circle). This material partly provides knowledge about the organisation of the seminars and partly about the ‘Outcome’ of the seminars. The coordinators are asked about their knowledge of activities that originate from or are inspired by To-Do. They are also asked about initiatives inspired by To-Do. This is because several coordinators have expressed that a local focus on new challenges and opportunities in the integration efforts has arisen, and that initiatives subsequently have been initiated that are not directly originating from the activities that were formulated at the To-Do Seminars, but which were initiated on the basis of ideas and acknowledgments that have arisen in connection with To-Do. The correlation between data and change theory can be seen in Figure 3 The connection between To-Do and data.

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