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Brownfield Housing Fund Evaluation Framework
Client:
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Study objectives:
• Develop detailed logic model collaborating with programme team;
• Develop evaluation objectives and research questions for programme and scheme level evaluations; and,
• Develop detailed Evaluation Framework including budget, timetable and draft brief.
We were commissioned by the Combined Authority to develop an Evaluation Framework for their £67 million Brownfield Housing Fund programme. The Authority wanted the Framework to be developed in partnership with the programme team to ensure it reflected their knowledge and helped build evaluation capacity.
We commenced the commission with desk-based research on the aims and objectives of the Fund at national level. We reviewed the Agreement between Government and the Combined Authority and document key monitoring and evaluation requirements. We then delivered a workshop with the Authority’s programme team to develop a logic model using our in-house framework which facilitates an understanding of:
• Context;
• Core objectives;
• Wider policy level objectives;
• Inputs and activities;
• Core contractual outputs;
• Wider outputs to demonstrate progress and impact;
• Outcomes; and
• Overall impact.
As part of this work we identified the market failures that the West Yorkshire seeks to address, and we developed and defined a series of meaningful outputs to enable the programme team to demonstrate progress against wider policy aims.
We developed three over-arching evaluation objectives with corresponding research questions covering process, impact and economic considerations. We also identified data sources that will be used to determine answers to each research question. We set the programme evaluation budget and created a draft brief that the programme team will refine before procuring a consultant to conduct the programme evaluation.