We offer:

  • Training modules – Introductory and more advanced (Tailored to need also available)
  • Translating learning into action – Project or Team based hands on training workshops using your own projects
  • Project support and coaching – Learning through doing on the job
  • One off or just in time advice
  • Coaching and virtual ‘drop in’ sessions

(If you are a DFFH funded OPEN member, free support is available via through Data, Evaluation, Advice and support (IDEAs)).

We are able to customise our services and are available for limited consultancy work. Even when we deliver the work, we are committed to building your skills and confidence in the process.

We can help wherever you are on the Outcomes Journey:

Identify

  • Use data analysis and client voice to assess needs
  • Review and assess evidence about what works
  • Rapid research appraisals or review

Design  

  • Develop and document your program/service model
  • Develop a Theory of Change or Logic model to define your success
  • How will you know you’ve made a difference? – Develop your monitoring and evaluation plan
  • Options for data collection
  • Capturing the client voice
  • Managing ethics considerations

Implement

  • Develop your implementation and monitoring plan to set yourself up for success
  • How to get the most out of your monitoring data
  • Build in reflection and review to learn and improve
  • Data analysis and report

Evaluate

  • Build understanding of government’s evaluation requirements (for DFFH funded projects)
  • Evaluation reporting for influence
  • Tips to communicate /disseminating findings for impact
  • Commissioning and managing external evidence providers

At the team or organisational level, build or strengthen your evidence foundations:

  • Evaluation capacity building for teams
  • Developing your Outcome Framework
  • Integrating and building common data collection tools
  • Being evaluation ready for government funded projects

Snapshots of OPEN’s Training and Support Projects can be found here

Get in touch

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OPEN Team

open@cfecfw.asn.au

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