| | | Grant model evaluation year 3 report | Rotary’s Research and Evaluation staff has completed the third year of its evaluation of our current grant model, which is required by The Rotary Foundation Code of Policies. The year 3 report includes new information about global participation, district resources, data collection and usage, scholarships, and grant sustainability. Some of the highlights:- 29% of the grant sponsors who responded indicated that they used the Cadre as a resource while working on their global grant projects. Of those who consulted the Cadre, 59% did so while designing the project and 37% did so during implementation.
- Most of the data that grant sponsors collect about global grants reflects the output. That is, short-term changes, such as the number of people trained during a project. Some Rotary members, however, work with experts from the Cadre, local universities, or others to gather more data to monitor the progress of their projects and measure longer-term outcomes. They can then use this information to influence long-term change, for example, through institutional policies.
- Cadre members completed 17 site visits during the 2022 calendar year in order to evaluate the sustainability of global grant projects that provided medical equipment. Generally, project outcomes were sustained when the objective was limited to providing medical equipment. When a project’s objective was to improve health outcomes, not enough data was collected to evaluate whether the projects achieved this.
Read the full report. If you have any questions, write to ri_research@rotary.org |
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