ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAMME GUIDANCE NOTES THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL NOT FUND PROJECTS THAT ONLY EVALUATE CURRENT OR PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ‘EVALUATE’?
Evaluation has been described as a systematic approach to determing the merit, worth, significance or impact of a particular something or someone. That is, evaluation aims to answer such questions as, ‘what standard does this particular service achieve? Or ‘does this specific service meet a required standard? Research, on the other hand, aattempts to derive generalisable new knowledge, including studies that aim to generate hypotheses, as well as studies that aim to test them. Suppose your organisation has recently introduced a new service and you want to find out whether it is fulfilling its aims. Or, you may want to find out whether services or interventions provided by others are satisfactory. Both projects are examples of evaluation and would not be eligible for funding under the Research programme. If you intend your project to ask questions about a current or previous activity, you should check carefully that it would not be considered an evaluation and therefore not eligible for
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