Community Research Assistants (CRAs)

Goondoi and ESS came together on the 22nd an 23rd of February to undertake Goondoi’s first Evaluation Workshop. The workshop was held on-country at Radiant Life College in Innisfail, with the aim of reviewing the monitoring data captured during the last 18 months in order to make ...

Two of the three Pilot groups have struggled to appoint and/or retain their community research assistant (CRA), with only one of the three groups’ CRAs potentially completing the role as initially envisioned. This has resulted in significant disruption to the project and might limit its outcomes. We offer two factors that might have contributed to this and might be learned from (as is the purpose of this Pilot).

Groups are now much more aware of the value of the data that they collect, store, or manage within their database. Whereas data and datasets were commonly confusing and meaningless at the start of the project, groups now recognise the value of their information and what it can tell them.

The Wuthathi CRA (Yodie) has requested to be trained to use some of the more sophisticated functionality of their customised information management system (IMS). Specifically, Yodie would like to understand how to build forms (the basic data-entry components of the database), so that Wuthathi can record new types of information on-the-go, as they become needed.