Organisational Support

Asking Good Questions 

This 1.5 - 2 hour workshop walks through the six questions in our Asking Good Questions framework. It covers high level questions of design, consistency, quality, and monitoring and evaluation, and results in a report including recommendations. It is a great entry point, offering a broad introduction to high quality design, delivery, and evaluation. 

Developing a theory of change 

This tailored workshop is designed to meet your organisation or team’s specific needs in relation to developing or updating a theory of change (ToC). For example, you might choose to focus on: 

• Building a new theory of change with your staff, the people that you work with, and/or other stakeholders; 

• Revising and refreshing your existing theory of change; and 

• Building your team’s engagement with your theory of change  

Specific workshop objectives will vary depending on your focus, but typically will cover: 

• Developing an understanding of what a ToC is and how it can benefit your organisation/team; 

• Understanding the key elements of a ToC; 

• Developing skills to draft a ToC; and 

• Developing the ability to apply your ToC in practice (e.g. through a monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan). 

Developing a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan 

If you’ve already got a theory of change, this tailored workshop is a great next step. We’ll support you to design a thoughtful and realistic monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan that can help you to put your theory of change to the test, and understanding what impact your youth provision is having. We can shift the focus depending on your unique context and aims, for example: 

• Developing an understanding of what a MEL is and how it can benefit your organisation/team; 

• Understanding the connection between your ToC and your MEL; 

• Developing skills to draft an MEL; and 

• Developing the ability to apply your ToC in practice (e.g. by selecting measurement tools and preparing for data collection). 

Impact and Improvement Standards self-assessment, coaching, and certification 

“Impact and improvement” refers to work that you do to both understand the changes that your work contributes to and make this even better as part of an ongoing, data-driven process. 

Our new Impact and Improvement Standards will support you to: 

• Understand the impact of your youth provision, including all the factors that contribute to and detract from it (e.g. determining what difference group size makes to a young person’s development of teamwork skills); and 

• Ensure that your impact evaluation leads to meaningful actions and higher quality provision (e.g. developing new session plans that enable you to stick to those group sizes). 

There are three ways to use the standards: