Research and Evaluation

Research

Since 1998 CCC has been regularly conducting various research programs of civil society development in Ukraine.

The main CCC research objective is to get and to use new knowledge, and information for socially useful results; to provide comprehensive study of the Ukrainian society development processes.

Priority guidelinesof CCC research:

• Ukraine civil society development analysis;
• non-governmental organizations state and dynamics analysis;
• applied research of civil society and power interaction; of communities development, and public administration reforming;
• corporative charity, community funds, charity culture forming;
• Ukrainian civil society organizations adaptation to the European independent sector..

CCC Research results are public, and you are welcome to study them at the page “Library”.

CCC distributes this information to public and local authorities, non-governmental organizations, international and Ukrainian donor institutions and programs, mass media, and a great number of stakeholders.

Research conducted subjects: “Civil Society Organizations in Ukraine. State and Development Dynamics” (2002-2007), “NGOs and corruption counteraction. The role, state and perspectives” (2007), “Justice accessibility for rural population. Current state evaluation and legal control problems” (2007), “;Evaluation of the Level of Users' Satisfaction with Services Quality which are Provided by Courts in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast” (summer 2008), “Corporative charity in Ukraine” (2005), “CIVICUS Civil Society Development Index Project” (participation in research consortium 2000-2002). More details>>>

Service list: consulting on research organization and conduction (research programs elaboration, technical exercises, instruments etc.); research made to order and reports reviews by research results.

In the matter of research ordering or consulting please contact Volodymyr Kupriy.

Evaluation

Counterpart Creative Center has got essential experience in evaluation of non-governmental organizations needs, projects, programs and development in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Georgia.

What is Evaluation?

Evaluation stands for a process of information gathering and analyzing intended to determine whether actions conducted answer the purposes planned. Evaluation is conducted in order to analyze the activity results and effect achieved; and to correlate them with certain criteria. According to the evaluation conducted there will be a conclusion about program, project, or organization efficiency, and recommendations for future will be submitted.

Evaluation kinds:

• according to what we are evaluating:
  • Needs evaluation – defining what we need to achieve the goal (e.g. what knowledge or skills we lack for organization development; what training requires are).
  • Project evaluation – evaluating efficiency of project performance according to the tasks planned, objectives, work plan and results.
  • Organizational improvement evaluation – evaluating organization work, defining development stage and quality of work.
• according to who is evaluating:
  • External evaluation engages an independent expert who does not work within organization and even doesn't refer to it with any links, which can result in a conflict of interests.
  • Internal evaluation involves people working within project of organization.
• according to the evaluation performance term
  • Intermediate evaluation is conducted during project performance in order to achieve goals more successfully.
  • Final evaluation is conducted when the project is over in order to find out whether the project goals are achieves, whether project results planned are completed.
  • Influence evaluation is conducted after a while when the project is over (in half a year or in a year). There is an analysis of changes which have taken place after the project performance.

Among those who ordered CCC evaluation services there were: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Counterpart Alliance for Partnership program (CAP); MATRA Program by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; “British American Tobacco Ukraine”; “Caritas Czech Republic” Foundation; Ukrainian-Canadian Community Economic Development Program; the Klitschko Brothers Foundation, and so on.

CCC has become one of the International Program Evaluation network founders (www.ipen21.org) in Moscow. CCC experts actively take part in work of this network, which aims at information exchange in the field of evaluation performance, up-to-date tends and directions.

For more details of CCC evaluation experience see “Research and analytics”.

At the disposal of CCC there is an experienced evaluation professional team that includes experts with experience in various society spheres and sectors.

Evaluation service list:

• intermediate and final project evaluation;
• influence evaluation of projects performed;
• needs evaluation;
• organizational improvement evaluation; and evaluation consulting.

In the matter of evaluation please contact Volodymyr Kupriy.