Evaluation is one of our favourite tools for understanding true impact.
“This research has us changing our thinking about the way we articulate what we do as a company.”
“You brought insightful perspective, rigour and focus to the evaluation and always showed a preparedness to work alongside the team to get the intent and nuance of the findings articulated.”
Whether you program aims to improve wellbeing, tackle loneliness or empower a marginalised group, evaluation is one of the most important tools you have.
It’s no longer enough to be doing good work and collecting anecdotes in a Word document. These days, stakeholders and funders need to see a robust theory of change, supported with evidence.
We provide program design and evaluation services to help you get an independent perspective on your work, and build a strong evidence base that you can use in your marketing, fundraising and investment decisions. It’s like a secret sauce for amplifying your impact and creating a happier, healthier world.
Benefits of evaluation:
Gather powerful stories of impact from your participants
Understand what’s working well & what isn’t
Identify what to ‘keep’, ‘tweak’ and ‘tackle’ in future
Demonstrate (and celebrate!) what has been achieved to date
Report your impact on subjective wellbeing, and other indicators
Prioritise opportunities to expand & evolve
Support your team to continuously improve.
Who is it right for?
Promising programs that are delivering exciting benefits, and need robust evidence of impact collected independently
Program Directors and Managers who want to follow best practice and ensure the sustainability of what they do
Initiatives with lapsing funding, when it’s time to take stock of what’s been achieved, and explore what’s needed next.
What’s involved?
Planning and desktop research to review the literature and analyse your existing datasets
Co-design process to map out a theory of change or program logic, and design the evaluation framework in collaboration with key staff and stakeholders
Fieldwork to collect new data from your stakeholders and participants, including interviews and a database survey
Analysis and reporting of all available data, workshopping the findings and presentation of the results in a high-quality publication.
What you’ll get:
1-page theory of change model
20-page PPT presentation
30-page report for external publication
1 page infographic
5-page operational report for internal use.
Other features
Co-design the method with your stakeholders
Position in relation to the literature and current ‘best practice’
Skill up your team in Evaluation Foundations as a part of the project
Co-author the report with our research team.
Want to find out more?
Head to the contact page to book your free, one-hour, no-commitment consultation. In this session we can talk about your needs, and help you flesh out an approach that will work for you and your team.