Key Themes

• Health & Well-being
• Crime & Justics
• Civil Society
• Employment
• Financial Inclusion
  

Services & Products

We provide custom designed research and evaluation solutions involving quantitative and qualitative methodologies. We can help you disseminate and share learning, making the research work for you.

We offer the following range of services:

• Qualitative research; interviews, focus groups, case studies, participant observation
• Quantitative research; telephone, face to face or web surveys, primary and secondary data analysis, economic analysis and modelling
• Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Cost Benefit Analysis
• Peer to peer research and action research
• Community and stakeholder consultation
• Process and impact evaluation at project or programme level
• Identifying promising or effective practice
• Reporting, disseminating and sharing learning

Products range from research reports, through to toolkits or handbooks, interactive materials, websites, films and newsletters.

Case Studies

Evaluation of Reaching Communities Programme for Big Lottery Fund.

Client: Big Lottery Fund

Description: Our evaluation runs from January 2007 to December 2010 and includes surveys, case studies and self evaluation support to the projects funded by Reaching Communities.

"I have been really pleased with the work ECOTEC have done to date, and we have a very positive business relationship. Their evaluation plan is comprehensive and logically thought-through, with clear links between data collection all the way up to the overarching aim of the study. ECOTEC's annual reports and presentations have been clear and concise, their workshops with our projects have been impressive, and I have been impressed at their willingness to undertake extra work at short notice. I am looking forward to continuing to work with ECOTEC for the next two years."
Peter Bailey, Research & Learning team, Big Lottery Fund (June 2009).

For more information visit our Reaching Communities Evaluation website or click here to download the latest report.

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