You might have seen from my social media activity that I participated in the FSI Big Advice Day during Small Charities Week. We also did something similar at our last EUConsult conference in March in London. These sessions can be Read more…
Disclaimer: I’m an independent consultant so I’m likely to view consultancy in quite a positive light! Sometimes you just can’t see the wood for the trees. Sometimes your team doesn’t quite have the right skill set. Sometimes you need someone Read more…
Well the snacks are the most important element, they keep your energy levels up! When I mention that to groups of stakeholders that have gathered to work on developing a hypothesis for a programme or intervention, they realise that they Read more…
This article first appeared in the edition of ‘Evaluator’ – the journal of the UK Evaluation Society in May 2019 When I was asked to write on capacity building for tendering and commissioning I thought briefly about making some high-brow Read more…
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be an independent consultant and an independent consultant who is also an evaluator. I’ve been thinking a lot about it because, well, business has been a little slow. Glacial. At Read more…
We talk a lot about positive impact: the positive impact that a programme or project is having, a positive impact delivered into someone’s life, etc. But we all know that things don’t always go swimmingly. Sometimes, in fact, our interventions Read more…
I talk a lot about social impact don’t I? But what is it and how important is it in my life? Social impact could be described as: The effect of an activity on the social fabric of the community and Read more…
A version of this blog first appeared on my website in November 2013. It has had a little tweaking but is still as relevant today as it was six years ago… I talk a lot about participation, stakeholder engagement, beneficiary Read more…
This blog is written with the evaluation commissioner (clients) in mind at the stage where they have to assess whether a proposed design is going to be successful, but the advice is relevant for those designing evaluations and those designing Read more…
So, you’ve put in place your programme of interventions, you’ve collected data and analysed that data to tell you how well the intervention has gone and you’ve even had an evaluation done (by some lucky person like me) that has Read more…