Getting Started
Our resources, events and support will help you to ensure that everyone is on board with your evaluation process and you have clear statements about the outcomes of your project or organisation.
Getting Started
Do you know why evaluation is important? Are staff and managers motivated to get started? Do you have clear statements about the difference you want to make as an organisation?
Collecting Information
Do you have statements that help you recognise the impact that you have? Do you have the right systems to enable you to measure what you do, and the difference that you make?
Using Consultants (Optional)
Do you know what you want from an external evaluation, and can you communicate that? Do you know how to go about commissioning consultants?
Analysing & Reporting
Do you know how to analyse the information you collect? Can you write a report about what you've done and the difference you've made?
Learn from your Findings
Do you know how to use the findings to improve your service? Do you know how to share your findings with others?
Events & Training
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Resources
ESS Support Guides
ESS Support Guide 1: Clarifying your aims, outcomes and activities
In order to evaluate successfully you need first to set out what impact you hope to achieve. Only then can you work out whether you have achieved it. Whatever problem you are trying to ...
Toolkits & Guides
CES Discussion Papers
Wide-ranging series of papers written in 2005 introducing evaluation topics: The purpose of evaluation Different ways of seeing evaluation Self-evaluation ...
Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 1: Definitions and Common Concepts
Produced by the Scottish Executive each guide provides straightforward guidance on the topic which is supplemented by a range of resources. The first Guide introduces different types of ...
Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 2: Planning an Evaluation
This is the second Evaluation Guide in the EIU Evaluation series. This Guide aims to explain the planning stage of an evaluation by describing the steps necessary in planning both an intervention ...
Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 6: Designing an Economic Evaluation
The Guide on Economic Evaluation relates inputs and outputs to costs and outcomes to benefits, tying together language from both areas of work.
First Steps in Monitoring and Evaluation; Helping you do better what you do best
Developed particularly for small voluntary organisations and those with limited experience of monitoring and evaluation. This booklet introduces a five-step approach based ...
LEAP for Health
LEAP (Learning, Evaluation and Planning) for Health is the name given to a framework which aims to help those who work in community health settings to plan and evaluate their work in ...
LEAP for Volunteering
Developed by Scottish Community Development Centre for Volunteer Centres Scotland in 2003. This planning and participatory self-evaluation tool was developed specifically for volunteer centres and ...
The Measure of Success: Developing a balanced scorecard to measure performance
This report introduces the Balanced Scorecard as a comprehensive view of an organisation’s performance, tying long term goals and priorities with the actions required to achieve them. A ...
Your Project and its Outcomes
The booklets provide a glossary; explaining what outcomes and impacts are and provides examples of what these might be for different groups. The booklet also looks at the benefits of ...
Tools
Weaver's Triangle
This is a tool you can use to help you clarifying the impact you want to make and separating your aims, outcomes and activities. D ownload
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