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Ipsos and NPC

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Ipsos

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Ipsos
Research & evaluation partner

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Global market research and public opionion specialist firm Ipsos provide data and understanding Society, Markets and People.

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National Centre for Social Research

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National Centre for Social Research
Research & evaluation partner

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NatCen is Britain’s largest independent not-for-profit social research organisation, working collaboratively to generate evidence that uncovers the reality of people’s lives in the UK.

Summary

This resource is a step-by-step guide designed to support you to develop evaluation capacity within your organisation or team.

It takes you through the key stages involved in improving how you
monitor and evaluate your work, from basic data collection to preparing for external evaluation.

The resource was comissioned by Youth Futures and produced by Ipsos and NPC. It is one of several learning outputs that aim
to capture and share knowledge and insights from the building evaluation capacity initiative.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Developing the building blocks of evaluation capacity
  • Developing a theory of change
  • Mapping your participant Journey
  • Building and implementing your monitoring and evaluation framework
  • Preparing for external evaluation
  • Developing a learning culture

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