Monitoring & Evaluation
This is an essential stage of all projects - and we are able to provide an independent viewpoint, where it is needed, of both the performance and impact of interventions.
At ECOTEC we are able to use a range of monitoring and evaluation tools to answer our clients’ questions such as “Will it work?”, “How is it doing?” and “What difference has it made?”. “It” might be one of a number of things: a project, an entire funding programme, an action plan, a strategy or a policy. Whichever it is, we have a vast experience upon which to draw, and can develop an approach that meets the particular needs of each individual situation. What is more, we can tell you what is working well (and not so well) and “how” and “why” things are as they are. We hope our clients will be able to use our findings to inform their future work, and we are often asked to formulate recommendations on this basis.
Our monitoring and evaluation services include:
- evaluating at project, programme and policy levels
- quantitative / qualitative monitoring
- ex-ante evaluation
- interim evaluation
- ex-post evaluation
For more information on our Monitoring & Evaluation work in your policy or practice area, visit our themes pages or contact Karl Held
Service Portfolio: Evaluation of the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
ECOTEC was commissioned by the Department for Constitutional Affairs to evaluate the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre. The Community Justice Centre was a high profile pilot initiative, running until March 2008, which aimed to put the community at the centre of justice, and justice back into the heart of the community by involving the community in activities and services provided by the Centre. The Centre, the first of its kind in the UK, offers a range of services from mediation to drug counselling, as well as being the location for the police, crown prosecution service and a court dealing with a range of offences including anti-social behaviour offences.
The evaluation examined the overall impact of the centre and the impact on specific target groups of victims and witnesses, offenders and centre users/community representatives to inform the mainstreaming of the community justice approach within other locations in England and Wales. The methodology included in-depth qualitative interviews with victims and witnesses, defendants and centre staff, a large scale telephone survey of defendants and the use of community researchers to explore the views of centre users and community representatives.
Read the report here
katharine.mckenna@ecotec.com
+44 121 616 36 00
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