CivicSpark Water Post-Service Capacity Assessment

You have been asked to complete this survey because you are listed as a local beneficiary for a 2017‑18 CivicSpark Water Project.

As a Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program, CivicSpark Water has clear performance measures and goals for project beneficiaries. This post-assessment is a follow-up to the survey you completed at the start of your Civicspark Water Fellow's service year.

Comparing your pre- and post-project results help us evaluate the program's success in achieving our programmatic goals as well as your agency or department goals.

In advance of completing this assessment, you should have received a copy of the Fellows' gap assessment goals and volunteer engagement strategy defined at the outset of the project for reference. If for some reason you did not receive this document, please contact Meredith Thompson at mthompson@lgc.org prior to completing this survey.

Please answer all questions honestly, and provide as much detail as possible.

Beneficiary Information

First Name *

Last Name *

Agency or Department *

Email Address *

Capacity Building Goals

CivicSpark Water seeks to expand local capacity in four general categories: staff development, project development, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge diffusion. Please refer to the Fellows' goals and volunteer engagement strategy defined at the outset of the project when completing this section. For each goal, select the option that most closely reflects progress toward that goal, and then provides an explanation in the comment box. Comments can include (but are not limited to) status updates, challenges, and/or successes.

ID

Provided in email

Project Title *

Name or description of the CivicSpark Water project you are involved in and responding to in this survey, also provided in email

Program Development Goals *

Did not meet goals

Partially met goals

Fully met goals

Exceeded goals

Please list any specific deliverables or concrete program outcomes (including new products) related to this goal and provide comments on how completion of these deliverables will help the agency better support water goals for the community in the future.

Agency Understanding Goals *

Did not meet goals

Partially met goals

Fully met goals

Exceeded goals

Please list any specific agency understanding outcomes related to this goal and provide any comments on achievement of these goals.

3. Stakeholder Engagement Goals *

Did not meet goals

Partially met goals

Fully met goals

Exceeded goals

Please list any specific stakeholder engagement outcomes rleated to this goal and provide any comments on achievement of these goals.

Community Engagement Goals *

Did not meet goals

Partially met goals

Fully met goals

Exceeded goals

Please list any specific community engagement outcomes rleated to this goal and provide any comments on achievement of community engagement goals.

Overall, did CivicSpark Water's capacity building activities increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your agency/department to advance sustainable water management? *

Yes

No

Comments on CivicSpark Water's impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of your sustainable water management:

Overall, did CivicSpark Water's capacity building activities increase your cross-jurisdictional, inter-agency, or cross-sector collaboration with other local, regional, and state partners? *

Yes

No

Comments on CivicSpark Water's impact on local, regional, and state collaboration efforts:

Did CivicSpark Water's support improve your volunteer engagement approaches and/or increase your use of volunteers for local water resiliency activities? * *

Yes

No

Please describe how CivicSpark Water enhanced or developed your agency/department's volunteer engagement (e.g. use of volunteers, recruitment, creation of new programs, amount of engagement, etc).

General Water Knowledge and Understanding

The following questions are designed to gain a sense of your agency's knowledge and understanding of statewide policies in the water‑sector, current staff training on integrated watershed approaches, and local understanding of community water challenges. Please answer each question genuinely. This information will NOT be shared outside of the CivicSpark team; it will only be used for pre‑ and post- assessment comparisons to determine impacts of the CivicSpark program.

Water Program Capacity and Barriers to Action

The following questions are intended to gauge how equipped you feel your agency/department is to address the issues and objectives associated with the CivicSpark Water project that was recently completed, or is about to be completed. Please answer each question genuinely. This information will NOT be shared outside of the CivicSpark team; it will only be used for pre‑ and post‑ assessment comparisons to determine impacts of the CivicSpark program. Please respond to the following questions on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being 'completely disagree' and 5 being 'completely agree'), in regard to the water management issue(s) addressed by the project.

Our agency has a defined vision, plan, or policy to address these water management issues *

Our staff currently has all the knowledge and training needed to effectively address this issue for our community *

Our agency has well defined mechanisms for tracking water use and/or water management needs related to these issues *

Our City Manager (or Leading Director) is very supportive of strong action on this issue *

Policy Awareness

On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being not at all familiar, 5 being expert knowledge) please rank your familiarity with the following state policy mechanisms and programs relevant to integrated water resource management in your community.

Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Water Bond/ Proposition 1) *

1

2

3

4

5

Training

On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being no training, and 5 being extensive training), please rank the extent of training you/ your staff have received on the following topics

Other training details

Local Understanding of Community Water Challenges

To better gauge knowledge of water management challenges among local government staff, please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 your level of understanding on the following topics (1 being ‘little understanding’ and 5 being ‘deep understanding’).

How ineffective water management impacts your community (e.g. depleted groundwater, sea‑level rise, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Potential local agency actions to reduce water use and improve efficiency at the community level (e.g. automatic meter reading, proactive leak detection, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Resources needed to enable the community to effectively respond to its water management needs (tools, financing, training, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Community groups most vulnerable to the impacts of poor water management (e.g. elderly, people of color, specific ethnic communities, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Potential trade‑offs or unintended consequences of local water policies/programs (e.g. conflicts between regional groups or displacement impacts)

1

2

3

4

5