Annabel Jackson Email and Phone Number

Annabel Jackson is an evaluator with 32 years experience. Her team includes specialists in the arts, small business development, community development, social enterprise, international aid and regeneration, as well as 10 interviewers. We specialise in producing and implementing practical evaluation and performance measurement systems that contribute to strategic planning and organisational development. We have pioneered work on outcome evaluation within a learning approach.A LEARNING APPROACHWe have specialised in, and promoted, the learning style of evaluation for over 30 years. This places the organisation’s own learning needs alongside the accountability requirements of its funders. The learning approach provides a narrative structure across the organisation, which links different projects and departments into a joint exploration of key questions for the organisation. Evaluations then become iterative and additional rather than each standing in isolation in its own intellectual space. The learning approach places formal evaluations and enquiries within the context of internal knowledge, including tacit knowledge from staff and partners. A PARTICIPATIVE APPROACHAll of our work is carried out with a participative approach. We are strongly committed to demystifying evaluation rather than making clients dependent on us. A DEVELOPMENT APPROACHOur role is to build your capacity to empower your board, staff and managers to think evaluatively, to integrate enquiry into their everyday work and direct evaluation towards questions that are most important strategically for your organisation. A THEORY OF CHANGE APPROACHWe see conceptualisation as the essential first stage in any evaluation. Conceptualisation consists in using logic models or systems diagrams to understand the connections within a project or programme: its assumptions about cause and effect.Specialising in:Evaluation of arts organisations and programmesPerformance measurementOrganisational development and mentoringTeaching of evaluationEvaluation of advocacyEvaluation of capacity buildingEvaluating training and learningEvaluation of social enterpriseEvaluation of aid programmesFeasibility studies, management advice and evaluation of managed workspace and incubatorsEvaluation of economic development and regeneration