people helping people - evidencing the impact of social action making evidence practical -...
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This presentation was delivered at People Helping People - The future of public services - 3rd September 2014. For more information on the event visit http://www.nesta.org.uk/event/people-helping-people-future-public-servicesTRANSCRIPT
TSIP, Project Oracle and the Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund
3rd September 2014
TSIP and Project Oracle
• Why is evidence important?
• Why is evidence difficult?
• TSIP and Project Oracle try to address this by creating evidence ecosystems that:
– Address both supply and demand
– Strike a balance between rigour and reality
3
Standards of Evidence
1
Account of Impact
2
Correlation
3
Causation
4
Manualisation
5
Replication
The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund
Theory of Change
Validation
Evaluation plan
Evaluator Procurement
Monitoring
DEMAND
SUPPLY
Making evidence practical
Standards of Evidence
• Demand-side
• Supply-side
Theories of Change
• Demand-side
• Supply-side
http://www.tsip.co.uk/ / www.project-oracle.com
3rd September 2014
Transport for London:
Driving an evidence-led approach
Graham Daly, Head of Community Safety and Policing Partnerships,
Transport for London
3 September 2014
EOS: TfL’s Community Safety,
Enforcement and Policing
Directorate
How and why we use data/evidence?
1. Evidence based ethos
2. Relationship with service provider
3. Understanding changes
4. Inputs, outputs and outcomes
Types of evaluation
• What do you want to know?
• Adopting a problem solving and
continuous learning approach
• Evidence sources:
• Data:
• Quantitative, Qualitative,
• Independent evaluation
• RCT
Challenges
• Organisational resistance to innovation/
change
• High standard academic research v
practical application
• Issues with data
• Supplied evidence does not always come
with data
Challenges
• Time
• Dedicated resources
• Politics
• Transferability
• Transport and social change
Graham Daly
Head of Community Safety and Policing Partnerships,
Enforcement and On-Street Operations (EOS)
Transport for London
Email: [email protected]
www.tfl.gov.uk
Pearson: the Path to Efficacy
Peter Hughes Head of Corporate Responsibility