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ESS stakeholders tell us what they need!
Read a summary of the ESS stakeholder survey results for 2022.
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ESS highlights the power of evaluation with our Annual Review for 2021/22
In our annual review we outline some key headlines on what we have achieved this year, providing a record of our development and performance at ESS, including: Using Evaluation to
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#OutcomesApproach to evaluation round-up!
If you follow us on Twitter, you might have seen our tweets signposting to our resources that promote our #OutcomesApproach to evaluation, which we kicked off in June! But in
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ESS puts the spotlight on our #OutcomesApproach to evaluation
If you have ever worked with ESS, you probably know that we are outcomes advocates when it comes to self-evaluation.
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Funders supporting grantholder evaluation: learning what works
From 2017-21, ESS ran an evaluation and learning support contract for grantholders of The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) in Scotland. This report has headline lessons about Providing grantholder support
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Steven writes for SCVO on trustees and evaluation
As part of Trustees’ Week 2021, Evaluation Support Scotland’s director Steven Marwick writes on evaluation and reporting for SCVO.
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Third Sector Interface Covid-19 Learning Project
We’ve been delighted to work alongside Scotland’s Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs) to understand the roles TSIs played during the Covid-19 pandemic. This important report identifies the types of activities undertaken
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ESS turns Sweet 16 today!
As today is our 16th birthday, what better day to look back and celebrate our successes from the past year? It was filled with growing pains, to say the least, given the challenges we all faced due to Covid-19.
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It’s a wrap on our spotlight on Evidence Use
A rundown of the Evidence Use resources ESS promoted from January to April 2021.
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Check out our new page: ‘Evaluating at a distance’
All the resources we’ve collected on our COVID-19 page have now been migrated to our new Evaluating at a distance page.
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Flexibility and adaptability sums up ESS’s 2019/2020
ESS’s Activities and Impact Report 2019/2020 highlights how we are flexible and adaptable in meeting the needs of the organisations we support. We worked with a total of 618 organisations last year! The report details the difference we made to third sector organisations and
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ESS and TSRF Summer 2020 newsletters
It’s easy to miss new resources with so many links posted online since lockdown. For a quick round-up of what’s new with Evaluation Support Scotland and the Third Sector Research
