Implementation Progress Reports
Monitoring the Implementation of Connecting for Life, Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020
A successful system for monitoring implementation delivers timely and relevant information that allows strategy leads and implementers to track progress and make adjustments to implementation arrangements as necessary. Such a system must track progress in a deliberate and systematic manner at regular intervals across all stages of implementation.
During Q2 and Q3, 2017, the HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Team initiated a new monitoring system to track the implementation of Connecting for Life (
As part of the quarterly reporting process, an update is requested on each action milestone as to whether the milestone is On Track, Needs Attention or Off Track to being achieved in the year as well as an update on the ‘Implementation Stage’ of the milestones based on the Centre for Effective Services four stages of implementation:
- Stage 1: Exploring and Preparing (and assessing readiness for change)
- Stage 2: Planning and Resourcing (and preparing for
change ) - Stage 3: Implementing and Operationalising
- Stage 4: Business as usual
Each quarter, lead agents are also requested to highlight any ‘Issues Arising’ which may be hindering the implementation of
- Q1-Q3, 2017 Progress Report
- Q4, 2017 Progress Report
- Q1, 2018 Progress Report
- Q2, 2018 Progress Report
- Q3, 2018 Progress Report
- Q4, 2018 Progress Report
- Q1, 2019 Progress Report
- Q2, 2019 Progress Report
- Q3, 2019 Progress Report
- Q4, 2019 Progress Report
- Q1, 2020 Progress Report
- Q2, 2020 Progress Report
- Q3, 2020 Progress Report
- Q4, 2020 Progress Report