This page contains useful resources for those interested in implementing, or already implementing, an outcomes approach within their project or organisation.

First Steps in Monitoring and Evaluation
This booklet has been developed particularly for small voluntary organisations and projects with little or no experience of monitoring and evaluation. The term "project" is used throughout, for simplicity, but the principles described can be applied to any voluntary or community organisation.

The booklet uses everyday language and gives you a practical, five-step, easy-to-follow approach to evaluating your own project. We will use a family centre as an example to demonstrate each step. If you apply the five steps to your project, you will gain fresh insight into what you do. This will strengthen the whole project and improve its performance.

Your Project and its Outcomes
This booklet has been written for trustees, staff and volunteers who are involved in planning, monitoring and evaluating their project. The aim of the booklet is to help you describe the outcomes you want your project to achieve. Working with outcomes need not be difficult. This guide offers a simple, step-by-step approach to identifying and assessing your project’s outcomes.

The case for an outcomes focus
This paper places the adoption of an outcomes approach by third sector organisations within its wider context, and reviews some of the findings on the value to be obtained from an outcomes focus.