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 David Supple
Service Portfolio: Urban Living Green Book Appraisals
Building on our considerable experience of appraisal and evaluation, ECOTEC has recently developed particular expertise in undertaking economic and options appraisals, utilising the Green Book methodology, for Housing Market Renewal projects.
The Green Book is the HM Treasury guidance on appraisal and evaluation, designed to ensure policies, programmes and projects are not adopted without having first considered whether there are (a) better ways to achieve objectives, and (b) better uses for resources.
Ahead of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, the likely devolution of HMR funding decisions to the regions, and looking ahead to the 2008-2010 HMR funding period, ECOTEC has helped the Urban Living HMR Pathfinder to look in detail at three individual projects in order to reappraise:
- strategic fit and contribution to HMR objectives
- whether alternative approaches might achieve better results
- cost effectiveness - in terms of costs and benefits - of resource allocations
broader social, environmental and regeneration benefits
- associated risk and sensitivity to changing market imperatives
- potential opportunities for mainstreaming of projects
clare.tostevin@ecotec.com
+44 161 238 4965
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