Measuring Impact - Nicva
Measuring Impact - Nicva
Measuring Impact - Nicva
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Identifying & categorising the sector’s impacts 25<br />
Education and training<br />
Health and social care<br />
Community<br />
Children and families<br />
Intermediaries<br />
Youth<br />
Disability<br />
Volunteering<br />
Arts, culture and heritage<br />
Environment<br />
Advice and advocacy<br />
Sport and recreation<br />
Gender<br />
Benevolent organisations<br />
Employment<br />
Religion<br />
International aid & emergency relief<br />
Animal welfare<br />
Housing<br />
Community justice<br />
Ethnic minorities<br />
Outcome and impact are likely to<br />
be well described using the<br />
descriptors cited in this study.<br />
Outcome and impact are likely to<br />
be fairly well described using the<br />
descriptors cited in this study.<br />
Outcome and impact measurement are<br />
likely to need additional descriptors to<br />
those cited in this study.<br />
Outcome and impact measurement are<br />
likely to need tailored methodologies.<br />
Not enough case-studies to give<br />
a true representation.<br />
Table 4.4 – Activity areas ranked by occurrence of outcomes and impact<br />
Critique of methodology 4.4<br />
The study used a large number and broad range of organisations. These organisations<br />
described a wide range of activities and identified many areas where the voluntary sector is<br />
having an impact. However, this approach has a number of drawbacks:<br />
• The approach allowed for description rather than demonstration of impact, except<br />
where external studies were quoted by organisations.<br />
• Using a questionnaire relied heavily on the respondent understanding what was<br />
meant by impact or added value.<br />
• Concentrating on just one stakeholder group (staff of the organisation) will have<br />
resulted in a bias in the types of impact identified, and may have made it more likely<br />
that negative impacts were not reported.<br />
• It is also hard to draw causal links between particular impacts and any outputs or<br />
inputs of the organisations, or the context or system in which the organisations operate.<br />
• The wording of the questionnaire, and the use of a questionnaire rather than<br />
interviews also reduced the ability of the study to identify negative impacts.