The NIFTY Change Project provides tuition, consultancy, mentoring and networking support to a group of our Partner agencies wishing to develop skills and confidence in conducting and commissioning single service evaluations. NIFTY evaluation is not just about individuals or teams conducting small-scale evaluations in isolation, it is also about beginning to develop a healthy and thriving culture of evaluation within agencies and departments.
- Catherine Shaw, Assistant Research Director – Evaluation, National Children’s Bureau, and
- Sal Lodge, Development Officer, research in practice, ran this project
Participants are expected to carry out an evaluation of their service, using the project to support that work. The project starts in January and participants are expected to complete their evaluation by November in order to gain full advantage of the learning opportunity this provides. This is a really good chance for non-researchers to take advantage of the support of the NIFTY working group and Catherine Shaw’s expertise, to gain confidence and skills whilst actually evaluating their service.
This change project was developed jointly by research in practice with colleagues at the research department at the National Children's Bureau (NCB) (new window) in response to the increasing demand for evaluation advice, support and consultancy from local authorities and voluntary organisations.
In summer 2003 we published, jointly with NCB, the first in a new series of practical handbooks about NIFTY evaluation, based on the learning gained from the project work and written by Catherine Shaw.
The research in practice symposium - 31 March 2004 in Birmingham - DIY single service evaluations, explained the history, context and latest research on single-service evaluation and described practice examples of self-evaluation generated by the NIFTY initiative.
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