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Mission, Values & Aims

Our Mission

To provide specialist support to voluntary organisations and funders to enable them to evaluate and learn and so provide better services for communities. We do this by helping voluntary organisations and funders access evaluation tools and expertise and by working to embed evaluation within funding and policy-making structures.
We believe that by improving evaluation capacity and skills, addressing the barriers to evaluation and increasing learning from evaluation this will lead to better and more effective services for communities.

We Will:

Work openly, fairly and in partnership wherever possible.

Promote equality and transparency in and through our work and the work of our partners.

Promote learning by using and helping others to use evaluation to improve the delivery of services for communities.

Promote a culture of honesty so that a fair appraisal of the weaknesses of a piece of work leads to learning and understanding and not punishment.

Use whatever methods are most appropriate to learn, and not become wedded to one particular approach.

Promote a culture of learning within Evaluation Support Scotland itself, including undertaking regular evaluations of our own work and learning from our successes and weaknesses.