Readiness Is a Conversation, Not a Score

Readiness Is a Conversation, Not a Score

Calling a community “unready” can quietly place the burden of implementation failure on the setting rather than on the intervention or research team. Nearly all respondents found questions clear, felt comfortable and considered the process a good way to exchange ideas, supporting the concept of readiness as relational and buildable. The tool reframes readiness as reciprocal learning among researchers, organizations and communities rather than a fixed community deficit.