Author Archives: orlaadmin
Feb
Quantitative data analysis training
Quantitative data analysis can be fun (and the flow of insights is induced by prodigious quantities of chocolate biscuits!) Deliciously nerdy day training/coaching the Rugby Football Foundation monitoring and evaluation team in quantitative data analysis. Elegant baseline data: itching to see the results from their follow-up survey.
Dec
Volunteer mentoring helps young adults recovering from mental illness
Our evaluation of TimeBank’s Back to Life volunteer mentoring programme for young adults indicates that this is a very valuable bridge back into society for young adults moving on formal mental health services. Read the report here.
Nov
Web 2.0 and research collaboration
Web 2.0 in the facilitation of research collaboration: A study of Web 2.0 use by researchers in developing and transitional countries, including some useful resources. Produced by the global development network, and very pertinent to delivering ‘information sharing’ goals which have been discussed in a variety of fora recently. http://cloud2.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=web2.0_study
Nov
Magic Bus M&E system
Good luck to the @MagicBusIndia M&E team, who will commence piloting the process we helped design with @thinkaqumen & streetfootballworld@sfw_tweets. The training course for internal staff starts in Hyderabad tomorrow, the questionnaire translations are hot off the press, and spirits – and adrenaline – are high!
Nov
Dutch Embassy Sport & Cohesion workshops
The next round of the @dutchembassyuk Sport and Cohesion workshops will take place in Amsterdam on the 9th November. Watch this space for the full report which will follow rapidly.
Nov
Dutch Embassy Sport and Cohesion Workshops
The @dutchembassyuk first two Sport and Cohesion workshops went swimmingly. Participants – your ‘raw’ output is available in each working group dropbox. The full report will be available after the workshops in Amsterdam next week. Thanks to @janvanweijen for the twitpic.
Nov
Crowdsourcing impact data
Elegant example of a crowdsourced impact evaluation. I guess it was only a matter of time. Having been banging on about ‘impact networks’ and crowdsourcing last week, I’ve now come across this one, which is being conducted by Global Giving http://www.globalgiving.org/stories/ A search for “sport” yielded 40 or so stories. Also has a mapping tool. Interesting approach….
Nov
Measuring & communicating impact – Laureus Global Summit
A scintillating workshop yesterday afternoon. The output of the group’s collective wisdom regarding how to make monitoring & evaluation useful is available here. Orla’s presentation of M&E canapes/tapas/thali/sushi is available here. The resource handout is here, and the InFocus presentation given by Damian Hatton (Aqumen), with input from Tom Keyte (Aqumen), Catherine (Minka) Daraspe (streetfootballworld) and Priyanka Sharma (Magic Bus) will be available shortly.
Nov
Principles of good impact reporting
Principles of good impact reporting – a timely document from New Philanthropy Capital available here.
