Public Sector

The ROI methodology offers an ideal discipline for evaluating publicly funded projects:

• achievements against targets
• benchmarking
• (if required) value for money

Delegates from the public and voluntary sectors attend abdi's workshops to acquire the skills to report meaningfully on project outcomes.

abdi itself has an international track record in

• evaluating publicly funded projects
• evaluating government initiatives
• helping public bodies to set up outcomes evaluation for funding programmes

Some of abdi's current and recent project evaluations and public sector consultancy:

Employer enagement in FE

Warwickshire College, one of the most outstandingly successful further education colleges in the country, has selected the ROI methodology as the way to meet the new Learning and Skills Council standard for employer engagement. In April 2008 abdi began supporting Warwickshire College's team that works with employers.

Investors in People

abdi and its partner The Assessment Network are under way with a major project for Investors in People UK to develop and pilot a business scorecard measurement process and template using the ROI methodology. The scorecard will capture standard data demonstrating the business impact of employee development within individual IiPUK clients. IiPUK will then be able to aggregate individual company scorecards to give regional, sectoral and national pictures.

Equal-Invest

abdi ltd has been the official evaluator for Equal-Invest, a 2007 development project for social enterprises funded under the Equal Initiative (ESF) in the UK. abdi used the ROI methodology to create a framework and standards for measuring the impact of the project on the fifteen social enterprises being developed. Now that the project is complete, abdi is using the ROI scorecard approach to evaluate the project overall, assessing impact and value.

European Social Fund

abdi has been awarded a contract by the European Social Fund Office of the Czech Government on behalf of the ESF to moderate a community of interest on impact evaluation which will inform ESF round 2007-2013.

NHS

abdi has been developing an evaluation strategy for an innovative partnership project between NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority and the regional Learning and Skills Council. The partnership will be primarily (though not exclusively) aimed at delivering skills across the NHS regionally through the LSC's flagship Train to Gain Programme. abdi has helped to design the evaluation strategy using the ROI framework in order to show the partnership's impact and value to the stakeholders (NHS, LSC and participating Trusts) and is supporting the strategy's implementation.

Singapore Workforce Development Agency

In 2006, abdi worked with the Singapore Workforce Development Agency to build an evaluation system to be used to measure the impact of all publicly funded workforce education and training interventions for the sectors that are considered to be the main drivers for the future growth of the Singapore economy to 2020.