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External Evaluation Consultancy - who we work with

ceni has carried out over 120 external evaluations representing a broad spectrum of commissioners, scale of projects and types of activity.


Various commissioners include statutory and non-statutory funders, voluntary and community organisations eg:

  • Government departments and agencies (eg DSD/VCU, DHSS&PS and DoE)
  • Funding bodies (eg Community Foundtion for NI, Community Relations Council, Save the Children Fund)
  • Voluntary organisations (eg Disability Action, Barnardo's, Family Planning Association, Gingerbread)
  • Community organisations (eg Newington Day Centre, CODA Drugs Awareness Project, Ballybeen Women's Centre, Dungannon Development Agency, Lisburn YMCA)

Various scales of evaluation, including:

  • full programme evaluations;
  • organisational evaluations;
  • evaluations of specific funded projects or areas of work within an organisation.

A diverse range of voluntary/community sector activity including:

  • community development;
  • adult learning
  • community relations;
  • health promotion;
  • women’s projects;
  • young people and children
  • disabled
  • ethnic minorities

See case study section for client examples across these different dimensions.

 
Contact Evaluation at the ceni office or email your enquiry
Case study examples of external evaluations commissioned by funders and funded projects
"There was a very tight timescale imposed by our funder who commissioned this report. The Evaluator was under considerable presssure but made every effort to achieve a fair evaluation report within the time."
"ceni had the experience required to work with the range of client groups involved and have access to consultants with a wide knowledge base in the sector.."
"We were very impressed with the professionalism and high standards of work presented throughout the evaluation process by the evaluation team"
"We chose ceni for this contract because we recongnise that they have the flexibility to deal with the changing circumstances which were likely to occur on this project."