NIFTY
Evaluation
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Small scale evaluation for single services, for non-researchers.
NIFTY 4 (2008)
(Neat, Informative, Feasible, Timely, Yours)
By popular request we are running the NIFTY evaluation Change Project for the fourth time - starting January 2008.
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 again
Participants are expected to carry out an evaluation of their service, using the project to support that work. The project started in January and they were expected to complete the 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, the materials that have been generated from NIFTY 1 and 2 and Catherine Shaw’s expertise, to gain confidence and skills whilst actually evaluating their service.
We encouraged multi-agency participation again for this year and we recruited a group of eight Partner agencies with a wide range of services to evaluate. Sadly we had to disappoint a number of applicants this time round.
- Catherine Shaw, Assistant Research Director – Evaluation, National Children’s Bureau, and
- Sal Lodge, Development Officer, research in practice, ran this project again.
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.
view the symposium report
After NIFTY 2 we produced a second edition of the NIFTY handbook which incorporates an additional rough guide to evaluation resources in the back.
Accompanying this new edition are three Power Point presentations to be used by anyone to describe NIFTY evaluation, process and experience. You can download them here and copy or save them to your hard drive for your own use.
See what NIFTIES said about NIFTY 3
NIFTY 3
NIFTY 2
NIFTY 1
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