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Home / Publications / Using Data to Establish Needs: Using the SPF Planning Process

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Using Data to Establish Needs: Using the SPF Planning Process

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bSeries: Prevention Tactics Vol. 8, Iss. 15
Topic: Capacity Building

This publication emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries for community-based planning processes; identifies the importance of agreeing on criteria in advance for analyzing and interpreting data to guide decision making, and suggests questions that will help to identify these criteria. It also identifies useful ways of analyzing data in order to yield findings directly relevant to decision-making criteria.

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