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Ipsos and NPC

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Ipsos

Building Futures, What Works: testing youth employment interventions  · 

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Ipsos
Evaluation panel, Research & evaluation partner

ProgrammeBuilding Futures, What Works: testing youth employment interventions

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Ipsos is a leading provider of research and evaluation services to local and national government, public sector agencies, third sector organisations and What Works Centres in the UK. Its dedicated Policy and Evaluation Unit is made up of over 50 highly-skilled evaluators including economists, statisticians, quantitative impact evaluation specialists and theory-based method experts. The team draws on policy and methodological expertise from across our wider Public Affairs division to establish high-performing project teams with the right skills, knowledge and experience to support clients at the forefront of pressing and complex policy challenges.

Working with Youth Futures

Ipsos collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.

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National Centre for Social Research

Evidence and Research on Youth Employment  · 

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National Centre for Social Research
Evaluation panel, Research & evaluation partner

ProgrammeEvidence and Research on Youth Employment

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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.
Driven by the power of understanding, NatCen delivers exceptional value for money by pairing steadfast independence with the ability to ask the right questions that unlock truly rigorous evaluation evidence. Its non-profit commitment ensures every resource is dedicated to providing the bold clarity that enables clients to act with certainty and make life better

Working with Youth Futures

NatCen collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.

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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