Main Street Area Action Plan
About Main Street Area Action Plan (MSAAP)
The Main Street Area Action Plan (MSAAP) is a collaborative, community-led initiative that brings together residents and relatives, community organizations, Elders and Knowledge Keepers, service providers, governments, funders, and other partners to support a safer, healthier, more connected, and more vibrant Main Street area.
Project
MSAAP and Bison Research & Development partnered to develop an Impact Evaluation Framework and support future annual evaluations. Using a community-informed approach, the project explored how MSAAP could demonstrate its contribution, strengthen accountability, support ongoing learning, and remain responsive to changing community priorities.
What We Did
We conducted a comprehensive consultation to shape the framework, combining the network’s community knowledge and experience with Bison’s research and evaluation expertise. The process included a questionnaire, focus groups, interviews, and a review of foundational planning, governance, funding, and evaluation documents.
Impact
Developed a community-informed evidence base to guide the Impact Evaluation Framework and future annual evaluations
Identified the relationships, trust, shared knowledge, and collective capacity created through the network as central measures of MSAAP’s impact
Established shared outcomes focused on resident experience, community leadership, relationship health, community improvements, and institutional responsiveness
Created an evaluation approach that centres residents and relatives, peers, Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and people with lived and living experience
Positioned MSAAP to demonstrate its contribution, strengthen community influence, support collective learning, and sustain resources for continued community-led action