Tag Archives: sport
Jan
Strategy & facilitation
Case studies
Organisational strategy development (1)
One of the largest ‘sport for development’ organisations in the world was awarded a small development grant (by Comic Relief) in order to create a 10 year organisational strategy and business plan. In conjunction with Good Business and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, OCR designed, facilitated and reported a process of stakeholder consultation and participatory strategic planning over a 1 week period with 30 of the organisation’s leaders and members. Not only did this process feature as one of the highlights of the year for individual staff members, but the output formed part of a bigger – and successful – application to Comic Relief.
Organisational strategy development (2)
A small charitable organisation wished to create a business strategy. OCR convened and facilitated two sessions with the board where the key strategic themes were identified and an action plan was created around these. This strategy was used to reconfigure the organisation and drive funding applications.
Participative design of community health interventions
A large urban NHS primary care trust wished to involve its target population in the design of training courses aimed at supporting healthy eating in areas of disadvantage. OCR, in conjunction with The Murray Consultancy, designed, facilitated and reported a series of community based workshops on healthy eating which informed the redesign of the training course.
Optimising university library services
In conjunction with Clearbox consulting, OCR designed, conducted and reported a series of workshops in order to optimise the library services provided by one of the main Irish universities. Results from this evaluation were used to reconfigure the library services, prioritise their innovation projects and streamline the library website.
Tagged | consultation, facilitation, participatory, sport, stakeholder, strategy
Jan
Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
Case studies
Young people’s involvement in politics
Our client wished to conduct a large scale formative and summative evaluation of a Big Lottery Funded project aimed at increasing the understanding of the political system among young people with learning disabilities. With Marilyn Doyle and Michelle Virgo of the Zebra Collective, we designed, implemented and reported a variety of participative methodologies, including peer interviewing, participatory workshops, paired interviewing and textual analysis of the proceedings of the Welsh Assembly. Young people with learning disabilities were supported to conduct interviews with Assembly Members, and the evaluation culminated in workshops conducted with young people with LD, and Assembly Members.
Meeting the needs of an online community
The Swiss Academy for Development wished to conduct an evaluation of a web based internet community (the International Platform for Sport and Development). We designed, implemented and reported an online survey, and made recommendations regarding how the website was serving the organisation’s strategy. We also created a segmentation of users using a CHAID analysis.
Developing an Impact Evaluation Toolkit
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation funds 150 Sport for Development organisations globally. They wished to build capacity within their project network by creating a common monitoring and evaluation toolkit. Over a period of two years, OCR, with Alison Woodcock of Royal Holloway University of London, created, piloted and refined a quantitative toolkit for sport for development organisations. The global rollout of this toolkit is now underway.
Tagged | evaluation, formative, learning disability, M&E, online survey, participatory, politics, sport, summative, young people