Making a difference together?
Planning, monitoring and evaluating voluntary and community sector collaborative working
CES’ National Performance Programme has joined up with Collaboration Benefits to produce a new guide, Making a difference together? The guide covers collaborative working in the voluntary and community sector, and aims to help organisations to plan the measurement of positive and negative outcomes and reach their own conclusions on the likely or actual benefits of collaboration.
It is an essential resource for those who are considering, or who are already embarking on a collaborative venture. Split into five key sections – Prepare, Engage, Plan Together, Monitor and Evaluate; it covers all the steps and issues you need to consider when developing an effective evaluation framework for your collaboration.
With growing pressure for organisations to survive, collaborations are an increasing way to bring together resources and expertise to strengthen an organisation’s service delivery and achieve shared aims.
Further support with collaborations
CES can support you with your collaborative venture; we deliver training courses, provide consultancy services and produce many useful publications and free resources that could help you develop an evaluation framework for your collaboration. Why don’t you consider:
Training – 3-day How to demonstrate outcomes – an intensive course covering all aspects of developing a monitoring and evaluation framework.
Consultancy support – speak to one of our consultants for 1-to-1 support.
Publications – we offer a wealth of publications and resources on monitoring and evaluation, many of which are free to download.
