Research and evaluation support for the Fairer Future Partnerships

Tender description

The Scottish Government is seeking an external Service Provider to provide research and evaluation support for the Fairer Future Partnerships. Specifically, the Service Provider is required to support a national evaluation of the programme that works collaboratively with local partners to shape and co-ordinate data collection, reflection, learning and knowledge sharing and builds an understanding of whether and how the programme as a whole is effective in achieving changes in public service design and delivery and ultimately better outcomes for families. Lot 1: We anticipate that the work will comprise four key workstreams: 1) Development of an overall monitoring and evaluation framework for the Fairer Future Partnerships programme, incorporating a range of outcomes, indicators and data sources, that can provide evidence of the effectiveness of the overall approach; 2) Provision of support to local partners in order to: a) enable the partnerships to collect good quality data that can evidence their agreed outcomes and impact, and b) facilitate ongoing evidence gathering, reflection, learning and knowledge sharing among partnerships; 3) Synthesis of data, evidence and learning collected by local partnerships to provide an overview of delivery models, programme reach and short- to medium-term outcomes; 4) Primary research with local partnerships and national stakeholders to explore key delivery challenges and the overall effectiveness of the partnership approach.