Charities Evaluation Services

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Monitoring and evaluation

Guidance paper 1: How to Cost an Evaluation

Guidance paper 2: What to Include In an Evaluation Brief

Guidance paper 3: Key Terms and Definitions

First Steps in Monitoring and Evaluation

Demonstrating the difference

Managing Outcomes: a Guide for Homelessness Organisations

Your Project and its Outcomes

The case for an outcomes focus

Accountability and Learning: Developing Monitoring and Evaluation in the Third Sector. Download the full research report or the research briefing.

Monitoring and evaluation resource guide

Becoming more effective: an introduction to monitoring and evaluation for refugee community organisations.  This plain English guide was written primarily for RCOs who have little or no experience of monitoring and evaluation. 

Using an outcomes approach in the voluntary and community sector: a briefing on the independent evaluation of the first National Outcomes Programme

The Open University Evaluation of the National Outcomes Dissemination Programme 2003-2006

Using an outcomes approach in the voluntary and community sector: a briefing for funders, commissioners and policy makers on the National Outcomes Programme

Quality

First Steps in Quality

PQASSO: a brief guide for voluntary and community sector organisations (please email us if you would like a hard copy)

PQASSO: a brief guide for funders and commissioners (please email us if you would like a hard copy)

Benchmarking

Benchmarking in the third sector: A research report - a Performance Hub publication

Benchmarking made simple: A step-by-step guide - a Performance Hub publication

Other

NEW! How are you doing? A review of health checks used by voluntary and community infrastructure organisations in their capacity building work

Working with refugee community organisations - a guide for local infrastructure organisations

Capacity of refugee community organisations - Refugee Settlement: Can communities cope?

Jargonbuster- defines and explains terms funders and VCOs use. The content of Jargonbuster has been drafted by Kevin Ashby and by Colin Nee (CES), with input from a steering group.

Read some of CES' evaluation reports.

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