This long term evaluation of a major collaboration between two Government Departments, Sport Wales and Public Health Wales included a Process Evaluation, a Theory of Change Evaluation, and an overall Programme Evaluation, also reviewing data and outputs from the 16 funded Projects.
This website promotes wellbeing through high quality presentations of contemporary artists – visual, performing, and craft – commissioned specially for this purpose. Initiated during Covid lockdown, it needed a full assessment and options for the way forward in post-Covid conditions.
This important Programme was promoted by the Arts Council of Wales in partnership with the Welsh Confed to fund Arts Coordinators in each Health Board, jointly funded between the Arts Council and the Health Boards. The evaluation explored all major aspects of the investment, including comparative assessments between the Health Boards.
This Programme funded by Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales initially needed a ‘discovery’ phase by RCS to establish how best to craft an approach most likely to succeed. We followed this up with a two year evaluation of the three funded Projects in Cardiff, Merthyr, and Ynys Mon, assessing both common success conditions and barriers, and also the Projects’ unique aspects
Welsh Government commissioned RCS to co-design with stakeholders a New Approach to Volunteering in Wales, focussing on broad enabling factors and also on the specifics of key sectors such as Arts and Culture, Health and Social Care, the Welsh Language Community, and Education. The New Approach also has an Implementation Plan, translating vision into action.
RCS has supported the development of local democracy and good governance in Myanmar, commissioned by the Forum and funded by the Canadian Government. This has included a Programme Evaluation, development of Impact Assessment tools, and training democratic actors to build new institutions, both before and since the military coup.