Related Information
Guides
Here are a number of guides offering information related to outcome focused planning and community development.
Websites
Here are a number of websites offering information which is relevant to outcome focused planning and evaluation and community development.
Community Development
The Scottish Community Development Centre's website is a valuable resource for anyone working in community development.
The Community Development Foundation has information on community development and publishes resources which support practice.
The Community Development Exchange is a UK wide membership organisation for community development.
The Scottish Community Development Network supports people who are working to support communities.
Evaluation
Evaluation Support Scotland provide support to help organisations evaluate and learn.
The Charities Evaluation Service provides information and advice on quality and evaluation systems for the voluntary sector.
The UK Evaluation Society's website provides information about the activities of the UKES and news about other evaluation activities, jobs, contracts, events, resources in the UK and internationally.
The W K Kellogg Foundation offers tools and reports that may be useful to anyone working for social change.
The Empowerment Evaluation Blog supports Collaborative, Participatory, & Empowerment Evaluation.
A news service for developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to projects and programmes with social development objectives.
The National Evaluation of Sure-Start website offers downloadable documents about self evaluation; qualitative evaluation and involving service users in evaluation.
Voluntary Sector
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the national body representing the voluntary sector.
Strategic Organisations
The Community Planning website provides resources, support and information to the Community Planning Network, other Community Planning practitioners and anyone with a general interest in Community Planning.
Communities Scotland offers guidance and publications which support organisations who work with communities.
Health
The Health Scotland website provides information and resources to support health improvement practitioners and organisations working with us to improve Scotland's health and reduce inequalities.
The CHEX website offers information and support to anyone working with community health issues.
The Community Toolbox offers practical skill building information for anyone working with community Health development.
Voluntary Health Scotland support partnerships and aim to make a difference to anyone working with community health.
Funding Organisations
The Big Lottery Fund offers information on evaluation and research
Research
Communities Scotland’s good practice manual ‘How to gather views on service quality - guidance for social landlords’ provides a useful overview of a number of tools and resources for consultation and research and is more widely relevant than its title suggests.
HEBS Research and Evaluation Toolbox has been developed to help practitioners in health and related fields think through how research can help them in planning and evaluating their work
Research for Real promotes learning from research by providing facilitation, advice and support for social research and evaluation using participatory and action research approaches
This website for Evidence based policy and practice offers a reference section, databases, downloadable papers and a journal.
The gateway to Social Sciences information provides a range of resources for anyone interested in social research.
(last updated on 13 January 2010)
