The Community-Company Assessment
Priorities
The CCA supplements typical assessment processes with inductive data gathering. This ensures that community and company priorities are determined by the two parties and not by the consultant.
Qualitative Data Analysis
A special capacity of BCS teams is the systematic collection, organization and analysis of large amounts of qualitative data gathered through the inductive interview process. Team members are typically also familiar with standard quantitative techniques.
Facilitation
Regardless of their technical areas of expertise, every BCS team member has facilitation skills. These enable listening and creating environments where individuals and groups may express their points of view without fear or retribution.
Data Validation
For every assessment or study, for any data gathering (qualitative or quantitative), BCS facilitates a series of public meetings to feed back the summary of our findings to the people who provided the data. We ask them if the data look right and seek their interpretation before leaving the field.
Rapid Assessment Techniques
BCS also uses a variety of rapid assessment techniques drawn from the traditions of participatory development.
Action-oriented
The CCA process concludes with formal, mutually agreed actions and accountabilities. These are monitored through activity-specific reviews as well as the more strategic level of trust-building through the Spectrum of Engagement.