Resources
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Results for: Economic evaluation
Economic analysis: What is it good for? A guide for deciding whether to conduct an economic evaluation – NPC December 2014
This report covers:What is economic evaluation and what is it useful and not useful for?What is the experience of organisations that have conducted economic evaluations and the funders that review
Guide to Social Return on Investment (2009)
Published in May 2009 and updated in 2012, this free downloadable guide explains what Social Return on Investment (SROI) is, and what the process involves. The guide has been written
Messages about economic evaluation from funders
A useful infographic.
Social Accounting and Audit (2011)
Social accounting and audit enables organisations to account for their social, environmental and economic performance and report on that performance and impact. A new Guide to Social Accounting & Audit
When to put a price tag on it (2017)
This guide will be of interest to you if you work in the third sector and are interested in doing economic evaluation for funding reasons. It will help you have
When to put a price tag on it (2017)- handout
This handout summarises the survey findings of funders’ views on economic evaluation undertaken by Evaluation Support Scotland 2015 – 2016.
