Example - Using baselines to monitor project impact
Baselines are invaluable in monitoring the impact of your strategy and individual
projects. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s http://www.jrf.org.uk
monitoring of the impact of the government’s strategies to reduce social exclusion
in the UK provides a good example.
They used their knowledge of social exclusion to establish a ‘basket’ of approximately
50 baseline measures that monitored different facets of social exclusion. These included
baselines that took account of both the social and economic aspects of social exclusion.
The baseline measures selected were all ones where information was already
collected by various public agencies and was therefore readily available and easy
to collect.
JRF have regularly updated these baseline measures, producing an annual report.
As well as a detailed report on the baseline measures, JRF have produced convenient
summaries which list the baseline measures and indicate which ones have improved,
remained unchanged or deteriorated over the last year.
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