Sustainable Development and Evaluation Events - February 2009
On 9 and 10 February 2009 the LSC held two workshops for ESF providers. One event was held at St Mellion in Cornwall for Convergence and the other was held at Wincanton Racecourse in Somerset for Competitiveness. The morning session on each day covered on Sustainable Development and the afternoon sessions covered Evaluation.
The Sustainable Development session was aimed at lead providers and partners/sub-contractors to highlight the importance
of Sustainable Development being embedded in all ESF projects.
The areas covered included:
An overview of Sustainable Development
An introduction to Sustainability Management Systems (SMS)
Developing Sustainability policies
Organisational assessment
Examples of good practiceSustainable Development is a key cross-cutting theme of ESF and the LSC will be monitoring practices more closely in this programme of funding.
The presentation from the Sustainable Development session can be viewed here:
Sustainable Development presentationThe Evaluation session consisted of a workshop covering the requirements for the annual evaluation report. This workshop was interactive and explained the techniques that could be applied to collect and present the information that will form the basis of the evaluation.
The workshop's aims were to:
Review the instructions and their purpose
Explain in detail the requirement of each of the 7 sections of the reports
Discuss techniques of data collection, surveys and impact measurement
Include practical examples of evaluation reportingThe guidelines for the evaluation reports were prepared in conjunction with a consultant who jointly led the workshop and was available to provide support on technical details. The evaluation report process is an important element of our quality monitoring and improvement strategy and we intend that an effective evaluation process is implemented by our providers. This workshop was an ideal opportunity for providers to access technical support for the implementation of this requirement.
The presentation and handouts from this session are available here:
Evaluation presentationESF evaluation guidanceESF evaluation report instructions
