Evaluation is critical in informing policy. It is key to ensuring that we learn the lessons of past efforts, strive to maximise value for money, and enhance delivery success in the future.
We work for clients in the UK (at national and local levels) and internationally on assignments spanning the evaluation process. These include interim and final evaluations, and process, impact and economic evaluations of a range of programmes and policies. In addition, we provide advice on evaluation methodologies and frameworks, support the development and implementation of monitoring systems, and carry out syntheses of existing evidence.

Our approaches to evaluation draw on our knowledge of relevant guidance and good practice, and are informed by current debates within the evaluation community. We do not focus exclusively on any particular methodology; rather we recognise that the most appropriate evaluation design is dependent on the intervention and its context. We are institutional members of the UK Evaluation Society and contribute to debates on evaluation practice through engagement with clients and practitioners within the policy arena.
We undertake evaluation across the range of our expertise. This breadth is one of our strengths: it enables us to draw learning from different contexts; it means that we can transfer evaluation practice across domains; and it equips us to work in an integrated way.
Project Examples
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Led the National Evaluation Panel to evaluate the progress and impact of long-term devolved Investment Funds in ten local areas across the UK
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Interim Impact Evaluation of the Regional Investment Funds for the British Business Bank
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Evaluation of the Innovation Loans pilot programme for Innovate UK
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Evaluation of the Start-Up Loans programme for the British Business Bank
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Various evaluations of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programmes for UK Research and Innovation, covering precision medicine, transforming food production, transforming foundation industries, made smarter, and creative industries clusters
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Evaluation of Greater Manchester’s Working Well programmes
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Evaluation of the Mental Health Assessment Pilots for looked after children for the Department for Education
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Evaluation of the Common Ambition Programme for the Health Foundation
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Evaluation of the Integrated Personal Commissioning Programme for the Department of Health and Social Care
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Impact evaluation of the Bikeability Sceme for the Department for Transport