Our approach and specialist processes can be applied to any complex, people-based change. In addition to the larger bodies of work outlined in our areas of specialist expertise we’re supporting projects, programmes and initiatives in many other areas:
Arts-based projects
Starcatchers
Starcatchers used OutNav to track progress of their Creative Kin programme for kinship carers and children. Their ambition is to spread this learning and use the approach across all of their programmes and projects to understand and demonstrate the difference they make to the lives of young children age 0-5 and the adults who care for them.
Stellar Quines
Stellar Quines is an intersectional feminist theatre company for Scotland, dedicated to exploring the role theatre has to play in creating gender justice for all. They used our approach and OutNav to track the difference their work made to addressing gender inequality in their focus areas.
Children, young people and family services
The International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP)
The ICCRP is a global multisectoral partnership of researchers and practitioners from international and national universities, governments, NGOs, human rights institutions, and young people with relevant lived experience, addressing the question of how intergenerational connections affect children’s rights understanding and implementation in Canada and internationally. A primary goal is to share findings internationally to transform policy, practice, and relationships to improve child rights, which will also re-establish Canada’s leading role in promoting children’s agency, participation, and human rights nationally and internationally .
We are working with ICCRP to help them understand and track their impact over five years.
Children 1st
Children 1st works to keep children safe, loved and well and together with their families. We worked together to create a strategic outcome map that showed how their work makes a difference to children and families. They used this to help design their internal data systems so that they can easily report on outcomes.
Froebel
Froebelian Futures is a three year programme (2021-2024) funded by The Froebel Trust, which aims to strengthen and deepen child and community-centred early years practice across Scotland, based on the foundational principles of Friedrich Froebel. Project partners, the University of Edinburgh and the Cowgate Under 5s (Scotland’s national Froebel hub) aim to inspire a national learning journey, through training, mobilising knowledge and supporting a community of practice. We are working with Froebelian Futures to craft their theory of change and capture the impacts of the programme on practitioners, practices and ultimately the experience of children and families.
Disability
St Joseph’s Services
St Joseph’s Services in Midlothian have been providing care and support services for adults with a learning disability for over 95 years. St Joseph’s is committed to supporting people with a learning disability to lead independent, happy and fulfilling lives as active members of their local community.
We are supporting St Joseph’s to embed an outcome focused approach in how they collect data and learning about their work and to ensure they can streamline how they report on the difference they make to the Midlothian Health & Social Care Partnership and other stakeholders including the Care Commission.
Cerebral Palsy Sport
We are supporting Cerebral Palsy Sport to understand and evaluate their new North East Regional Hub, which will bring together professionals across different sectors in local communities to build capacity and share learning about making sport more accessible for people with Cerebral Palsy. This innovative new development will be scaled across regions so embedding a robust outcome focussed model will enable them to share key learning about what works and guide their next steps as an organisation.
Gender and gender-based violence
Scottish Women’s Aid Children and Young People’s webchat
Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) is the lead organisation in Scotland working towards the prevention of domestic abuse. In 2020/21 SWA piloted a webchat service providing direct support to children and young people experiencing domestic abuse, involving children and young people in service design. We acted as the evaluation partner for this work, helping SWA to first map their outcomes, and acting as an external guide to gathering data, reflections and learning against their outcome map.
Read more about this work and download the evaluation highlights report →
International Justice in Child Contact
We established and conducted an evaluation of the EU Daphne funded Justice and Child Contact Project in partnership with the University of Edinburgh. The project focused on improving children’s rights in the context of domestic abuse in four EU countries. OutNav helped to understand and share learning between these countries about what is working well.
Green and environmental work
Paths for all
Paths for All are the Scottish charity championing everyday walking for a happier, healthier, greener Scotland. They work with the public, communities, organisations, workplaces and stakeholders across a range of programmes. Their goal is to create systems, opportunities and environments that enable walking and wheeling, and promote positive behaviour change across the whole of Scottish society.
We are working with Paths for All to enable them to tell a strong organisation-wide story, drawing together data and evidence, and learning, from across their wide-ranging work to understand their impact at a strategic level.
Human rights
Making Children’s Rights Real
We worked with multiple stakeholders across sectors to develop a theory of change for the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in Scotland.
This follows the decision made by the Scottish Parliament to bring the UNCRC into Scots law. With input from over 60 organisations, these reports present a vision of what these changes might look like when implemented across policy and culture.
Centre of Human Rights Law
In 2022 we were asked to provide facilitation of two workshops with civil society organisations and local authorities respectively to explore the context around the implementation of new human rights instruments and to develop draft theories of change, as a way of recording and structuring early thinking around the new legal framework and how it might be translated into lived realities. The workshops brought together duty-bearers, rights-holders (via civil society representation) and academics to share knowledge and expertise. The draft outcome map created through the workshops was shared with stakeholders for further discussion via a live OutNav report.
International development
UNICEF Innocenti Child Labour Rights and Protection
The UNICEF Innocenti Child Labour Rights and Protection project aims to understand the causes and prevention mechanisms of child labour in India and Bangladesh through understanding the research base and commissioning new research to fill gaps. We are working with them to embed our outcome approach into their work to ensure that research conducted by the team achieves impact.
Sport
Safe Sport Allies
We are working with Thomas More University on the Safe Sport Allies program. We are the learning partner and will help ensure that we understand the contribution and impact of the program to providing a safe environment for young people in elite youth football.
Being one of the first safe sport interventions worldwide that adopts an evidence-based approach, the Safe Sport Allies program offers a promising avenue for safeguarding education at local level.
Cerebral Palsy Sport
We are supporting Cerebral Palsy Sport to understand and evaluate their new North East Regional Hub, which will bring together professionals across different sectors in local communities to build capacity and share learning about making sport more accessible for people with Cerebral Palsy.
This innovative new development will be scaled across regions so embedding a robust outcome focussed model will enable them to share key learning about what works and guide their next steps as an organisation.
Training programme evaluation
Scottish Women’s Aid’s Equally Safe in Practice programme
We are supporting Scottish Women’s Aid’s Equally Safe in Practice programme to evaluate the impact of their workforce development programme with employers. Equally Safe in Practice takes a system-wide approach through training and practice development across organisations to strengthen their ability to challenge Violence Against Women and Girls, address gender inequality and improve the safety of their employees and customers.
Building on the evaluation of their pilot project in 2022, the Matter of Focus approach is being used to enable learning and reflection throughout the programme, informed by the context factors, enablers and barriers that exist for employers and to capture impact of the work as it is rolled out.
Health Data Science CPD programme
We supported the Usher Institute within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh to develop an outcome map to understand and evaluate the impact of its Health Data Science continued professional development (CPD) course.