CIV Newsletter ~ Feb 2013
Following a fantastic year of new data releases and international acclaim, the Community Indicators
Victoria team is set for another huge year. This edition, you will read about our training modules offered
as part of the 2013 Training Calendar. We look forward to seeing you and your colleagues at our events
throughout the year.
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Reminder! Results Based Accountability (RBA) 101 Training 13 March
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2013 Training Calendar and New Training Dates – Book now!
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Staff Happenings
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Other McCaughey Centre news
Reminder! Results Based Accountability (RBA) 101 Training, Wednesday 13 March
Spaces are still available for the RBA Training will be held on Wednesday 13 March at Graduate House,
University of Melbourne.
This one day workshop introduces participants to the Results Accountability framework and applies it to
cross-community quality of life improvements and the management of programs, agencies, and service
systems. Participants will learn how to:
 Establish results and indicators of community well-being;
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Use results to drive decision making and budgeting;
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Identify performance measures for programs, agencies, and service systems;
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Use performance measures to improve performance; and
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Link program accountability to cross community efforts.
Register here.
2013 Training Calendar and New Training Dates – Register Now!
CIV 102 - How to use CIV in Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Planning, Tuesday 26
March
This half day training is designed specifically for people who are responsible for preparing Municipal
Public Health and Wellbeing Plans. Whether you have used the CIV portal from time to time or are yet to
discover how CIV may strengthen your evidence base, this training will build the capacity of participants
to:
 Learn more about the CIV framework of community wellbeing
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Understand the role of community indicators for planning
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Search for data relevant to their identified health and wellbeing priorities
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Create maps that show relationships between two indicators (transport access and limitations)
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Visually communicate wellbeing indicators at LGA level
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Generate an Automated Community Wellbeing Report (LGA level)
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Understand how CIV data can be included in MPHWP’s
Register here.
CIV 101 - Community Indicators Victoria 101, Tuesday 30 April
This short course introduces the role of community indicators for evidence-based policy development,
planning and monitoring. Using case study examples, it is a perfect introduction to Community Indicators
Victoria and provides a refresher for people who may have used CIV. Participants will learn to:
 Navigate the CIV website and locate relevant wellbeing indicators
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Learn how to create your own Live Reports of wellbeing
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Interpret report findings
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Measure wellbeing (utilizing the data framework and available meta data)
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Develop and publish customized reports to the online library
Register here.
Results Based Accountability 202 with RBA founder Mark Friedman, 1+2 May
This is a two day intensive workshop designed to cement practical applications of the concepts learnt in
RBA 101 and to further enable particpants to assist and coach others in the application of RBA from
individual programs to the entire organisation. This extended RBA can also be applied to both crosscommunity quality of life improvements and the management of programs, agencies, and service
systems.
Mr Mark Friedman, founder of Results Based Accountability will be facilitating this workshop. Mr Friedman
is the Director of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also the author of the
book Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough: How to Produce Measurable Improvements for Customers and
Communities. The RBA approach has been applied to improve services in over 40 US states and countries
including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK.
CIV 103 – Introduction to GIS Indicators, Tuesday 23 July
This half day training is designed for individuals who use or would like to use spatial data as part of their
advocacy and policy work. It will build capacity of CIV users to be able to:
 Learn what a GIS is and how it can be applied to community indicator development
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Locate and use the recently released spatial indicators
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Generate single maps and double maps that illustrate priority health issues at a LGA level
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Include practical topic related examples demonstrating the use of GIS based indicators
The training will incorporate case studies.
CIV 104 – CIV showcase: Applications and case studies across Victoria. Tuesday 10
September (tbc)
A year means a lot for the world of community indicators and this event showcases how CIV is being
applied across different settings. Participants will:
 Learn how CIV is being applied in local government, private sector and settings community CIV
members showcasing case studies
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Be informed with the latest news from CIV (including latest data releases, wellbeing indicators
and publications)
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Exchange knowledge and share individuals’ experience of using CIV
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Have opportunity to network with CIV team and diverse user groups and interested parties.
Staff Happenings
Stephanie David joined the CIV team in February 2013. Stephanie is a qualified urban planner and brings
a wealth of experience in international urban development and and integrated health and planning. She
has led and managed projects on behalf of the United Nations, the Government of Canada, the
Government of Samoa, the Australian Federal Government, State Government of Victoria and various
private sector and industry clients. Most recently, Stephanie worked in the Public Health Unit at the
Department of Health, North West Metropolitan Region. Stephanie’s current role is focused on community
capacity building and has taken over from Micaela Drieburg who has recently been elected Mayor of
Monash. Congratulations Micaela!
Other McCaughey Centre news
Social Determinants of Health Short Course Featuring Ichiro Kawachi 1 + 2 May 2013