
5 Principles for good evaluation
Use our 5 principles for good evaluation to help you judge if you are happy with your evaluation!
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5 Principles for good evaluation
Use our 5 principles for good evaluation to help you judge if you are happy with your evaluation!

Charting the waters
This guide is for people in third sector organisations that want to understand and evaluate the difference their policy influencing work makes.

Evaluating Community Projects – A Practical Guide
These guidelines were developed to help 20 community and voluntary organisations to evaluate their work.

Evaluating online and remote work: Challenges and Tips
On 27th October 2020, ESS held an Inspiring Impact peer-learning event on Evaluating online and remote work. This document is a summary of the challenges and tips participants shared with each other during the event.

Evaluating prevention resource
This guide shares learning from our work about how to evaluate prevention. We suggest approaches you can take and share examples from the third sector.

Evaluating publications – a short guide
This short guide explains the different types of evidence you can use and different methods to collect evaluation data to evaluate publications. It addresses the challenges and providing tips to

Hearing from Everyone: Building equality, diversity and inclusion into self-evaluation
Hearing from Everyone: Building equality, diversity and inclusion into self-evaluation.

How befriending can help health & social care partnerships with their priorities
This resource will help befriending services measure and demonstrate their contribution to strategic level outcomes.

How good is my evidence? – A guide to assessing the quality of self-evaluation evidence
Sometimes we are asked ‘How do I know my evidence is good enough?’ The answer is not straightforward, because it depends on a number of factors. This guide takes you through a series of steps that allow you to answer this broad question.

How to evaluate asset-based approaches in an asset-based way
This paper sets out 10 principles to think about when evaluating asset-based approaches.