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COMMISSIONING BODY: WATERFORD SPORTS PARTNERSHIP (WSP) ON BEHALF OF
THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS (PACC)
INITIATIVE
TENDER TITLE:
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY IN SUPPORT OF WATERFORD
COMMUNITY-BASED INFORMATION AND SIGNPOSTING PILOT INITIATIVE (AN
INITIATIVE OF PACC DESIGNED TO INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE
LIVING WELL WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS IN COMMUNITY-BASED PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY PROGRAMMES)
Waterford Sports Partnership, on behalf of the PACC initiative,
invites submissions from suitably experienced individuals, agencies or
multi-disciplinary teams to facilitate a learning and development
process that will include elements of research, facilitation and
evaluation.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS (PACC)
The PACC initiative involves a multi-stakeholder collaboration that
was initiated in * by the Carlow, Waterford and
Westmeath Sports Partnerships with initial funding secured under the
* Dormant Accounts Innovation Fund, managed by
Sport Ireland. Key stakeholders involved in the strategic direction
and oversight of PACC are the aforementioned Local Sports
Partnerships, the HSE and Higher Education Institutions, specifically
the South East Technological University (SETU), Carlow and Waterford
and the Technological University of the Shannon (TÚS) in Athlone. The
PACC core stakeholders aspire to an Ireland in which people with
chronic conditions have equal opportunity to access regular,
appropriate, supported and high quality physical activity in
accordance with their needs and interests. Consequently, PACC has set
out to understand and address systemic barriers to the participation
of people with chronic conditions in physical activity through the
creation of a replicable, multisectoral, evidence-informed,
collaborative initiative that generates learning and builds on
evidenced practice.
COMMUNITY-BASED INFORMATION AND SIGNPOSTING TOWARDS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY:
OVERVIEW OF PROJECT
Community-based Information and Signposting Towards Physical Activity
is a pilot project of PACC. The project is premised on the
understanding that ongoing effective information flow is as an
important vehicle in promoting partnership between health and exercise
professionals, and is critical in building the confidence and capacity
of people living with chronic conditions to participate in
community-based physical activity programme.
Consequently, the pilot project set out to develop a formalised
engagement process between healthcare professionals, social
prescribers and community-based physical activity providers, and to
test that engagement in Waterford city and county. The project works
towards the following outcomes:
* increased information-flow, linkage and collaboration between
Waterford Sports Partnership and i) Waterford Social Prescribing
Service and ii) Waterford Chronic Disease Hub;
* people living well with chronic conditions in Waterford city and
county have i) increased knowledge of community-based physical
activity opportunities and ii) increased confidence to participate in
community-based programmes; and
* increased participation of people living well with chronic
conditions in the programmes of WSP.
In the longer term, the project is also working towards the
establishment of an evidence-informed, collaborative, community-based
information and signposting process that, via evaluation, will be
identified as an innovative and replicable good practice model in
contributing to the participation of people with chronic conditions in
physical activity.
The project is delivered by a multi-stakeholder working group,
comprising representatives of Waterford Sports Partnership; HSE
Chronic Disease Hub, Waterford; HSE Healthy Eating and Active Living
Programme; HSE Self Help Management, CHO5; Technological University of
the Shannon (TÚS) and the Waterford Social Prescribing Service (City
and County). The group is supported by the PACC Programme Facilitator.
CONSULTANCY
The Pilot Project Working Group finds itself at an important juncture
at the beginning of *. There is a strong
commitment within the Working Group to the independent evaluation of
its work, particularly in terms of its impact on the participation of
people living well with chronic conditions in community-based exercise
programmes of WSP. And there is an equally strong commitment to
capturing learning from programme implementation that will have value
to similar efforts that are evolving, and will continue to evolve, in
other communities.
However, there is also a shared recognition within the Working Group
that more needs to be done to strengthen the delivery and impact of
the project in Waterford. The Group recognises that, to date, it has
developed its own approach to information-sharing and signposting. In
other words, it has ploughed its own furrow without reference to other
models in operation or without reference to national/international
evidence of what works in this space.
The Pilot Project Working Group therefore not only wants to access
external expertise to conduct independent evaluation, it also wishes
to access expertise that will facilitate all stakeholders in this
initiative to work strategically towards improved signposting,
improved participation of people with chronic conditions and an
impactful model for dissemination and replication.
A FULL TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE CONSULTANCY IS PROVIDED IN THE
ATTACHED DOCUMENT BELOW.
TENDER CLOSING DATE: 5p.m. on Monday *th
February, *.
CONTACT DETAILS FOR APPLICANTS:
Any queries relating to the proposed consultancy should be directed by
email to Neil Haran, PACC Facilitator and operating on behalf of
Waterford Sports Partnership at *. Closing date
for receipt of queries will be 5pm on *st
February *.
CONTACT DETAILS FOR TENDER SUBMISSION:
Completed tender documents should be submitted electronically by 5pm,
*th February, * to
Rosarie Kealy, Coordinator, Waterford Sports Partnership at **Apply on
the website**. Please mark _TENDER SUBMISSION: LEARNING AND
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY IN SUPPORT OF WATERFORD COMMUNITY-BASED
INFORMATION AND SIGNPOSTING PILOT INITIATIVE _in the subject line.
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