We comissioned the National Centre for Social Research to evaluate the Amber Foundation Programme.
This report outlines the Qualitative Impact Evaluation (QIE) protocol for the evaluation.
It presents the current state of the evaluation process at the end of the mobilisation phase and provides more detail on data collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination.
Chapter 2 – Background information on the intervention and the evaluation, including the existing Theory of Change for the Amber Foundation programme
Chapter 3 – Overall evaluation design and approach
Chapter 4 – Tentative hypotheses which were built by synthesising the learning from the mobilisation phase, explaining how this affected the design and planning of the data collection process.
Chapter 5 – Specific design for case selection for the second evaluation phase (population) and participants’ engagement.
Chapter 6 – Data analysis plan, dependent on breadth, depth, diversity, quality of data collected
Chapter 7 – Planned outputs
Data annex – Results from a basic analysis of monitoring data, confirming the complexity of the cases and the appropriateness of the selected design.
The report serves as a basis for discussing the evaluation design with a wide range of stakeholders, including Amber staff, the residents, other service providers, lived experience panels, youth groups, and fora of experts.
The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) remains open to suggestions and comments, to continue discussing the evaluation design as it evolves and is implemented in the remaining phases of the evaluation, and invites the readers to consider this QIE protocol as Version One.
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