In this webinar, we focus on our work with the Scottish Human Rights Commission to develop and refine a theory of change to inform their new four-year strategy towards building a fairer Scotland where human rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled.
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About the Scottish Human Rights Commission
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is an independent public body that promotes understanding, respect, and best practice for all human rights across Scotland.
With powers to recommend changes to law and policy, conduct inquiries (with limitations), and promote human rights through education, training and publishing research, the Commission is accountable to the Scottish Parliament and works to ensure that everyone’s rights – economic, social, cultural, civil, and political – are upheld.
About our work together
We worked with the Commission over a series of workshops to set out their strategy into a clear outcome map (our version of a theory of change). This was piloted and refined over a few months, and used to decide what evidence and data would be needed to track the Commission’s contribution.
About this webinar
Join Kelly Shiell-Davis (Principal Evaluation Consultant, Matter of Focus), Jan Savage (Executive Director, Scottish Human Rights Commission) and Ali Hosie (Research Officer, Scottish Human Rights Commission) who will share learning and insights from this ongoing work, including:
- Creating and refining a strategic outcome map. Aligning diverse activities with a strategic pathway to build a shared understanding of how the Commission’s varied activities contribute to outcomes and share the story of the difference their work makes.
- Building a framework for meaningful and manageable evaluation. Using the outcome map as a framework for monitoring and evaluating progress – merging existing and new processes and systems of collecting evidence.
- The benefits of working this way. Using this approach the Commission can show more clearly how they’re driving positive change, strengthening legal protections, and improving people’s experiences of their rights.
- Developing an outcome-focused learning culture within the Commission. Developing plans to capture learning to support a more responsive and effective delivery of the strategy.
Please join us if you are interested in:
- Ensuring people are at the centre of strategic planning
- Maintaining clarity when working across a broad and complex remit
- Aligning multiple processes and systems to a strategic theory of change
- Keeping your future focus close to the outcomes that matter most to you and your work.