Evaluating Social Capital Outcomes

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Tuesday 13 November 2007

10.00am

4.00pm

NICVA- 61 Duncairn Gardens- Belfast

£100 pp (voluntary/community) £175 pp (other)

Event

Traditional evaluation models can often neglect the 'added value' aspects of the voluntary and community sector’s work which are often regarded as too difficult to quantify or measure. CENI (commissioned by DSD) has developed a model and toolkit (referenced in Positive Steps 2005) using the concept of social capital to capture and evaluate the outcomes of the sector’s activity.

This one day training course aims to enhance understanding and skills in identifying and evaluating the “added value” aspects of participants’ work, using CENI’s Social Capital Outcomes and Indicators Framework. The course will demystify concepts and explain the different dimensions of social capital.

Course Objectives:

• To increase knowledge and understanding of the Social Capital Model including an introduction to the concepts and issues as well as benefits of this approach
• To enable participants to identify outcomes and indicators relevant to their work relating to bonding, bridging and linking social capital
• To raise awareness of evidence gathering and methods including existing data sources, the use of surveys and other techniques to capture social capital within communities
• To increase understanding of where social capital outcomes are located within a broader evaluation framework

By the end of the course participants will have reflected on their organisation’s contribution to building social capital and considered how the CENI Model might be applied to enable them to better evidence social capital outcomes.