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Real Evaluation works across a range of domains including:

    leadership development
    human resources
    health
    education
    social policy
    community change
    organisational change
    organisational performance
    value for money with intangible outcomes

Services include:

    strategic evaluation advice and support

    • strategic and critical thinking about how to get maximum value for money from evaluation
    • advice and support on the development and implementation of strategic evaluation policies, systems, tools and training
    evaluation training and development

    • for those commissioning and overseeing contracted evaluations
    • for those conducting evaluations
    development of user-friendly tools and frameworks:

    • an evaluation frameworks, tools and analysis strategies that can be used on an ongoing basis by a group of organisational staff, teachers/other professionals or community members
    • user-friendly performance appraisal tools that go right to the heart of what really matters and clearly convey important expectations without resorting to simplistic ‘metrics’ that miss the point
    facilitated self-evaluation and capacity building:

    • coaching a group of staff through all or part of evaluation project
    • ‘train the trainer’ models, where a core group of individuals is coached through a process, which they will later coach others through
    independent, incisive evaluations of programmes, projects, strategies, services, organisational change initiatives, restructures, HR systems, overall organisational performance, etc
    formative and summative ‘meta-evaluation’ (advice, support, coaching, and critical reviews of evaluation plans or evaluations)