Perché è importante misurare l’impatto sociale?
Il concetto di impatto sociale ha ricevuto una crescente attenzione negli ultimi anni, in particolare dopo la legge di Riforma del Terzo Settore che introduce nell’ordinamento la sua valutazione. La Riforma infatti definisce la valutazione di impatto sociale come una “valutazione quantitativa e qualitativa sul breve, medio e lungo periodo degli effetti delle attività svolte [...]
Povertà educativa e valutazione di impatto sociale, una nuova progettazione
In un momento in cui l'emergenza sanitaria ha acuito le disuguaglianze e le fragilità dei giovani e delle loro famiglie, il Ministero per le Pari Opportunità e per la Famiglia ha approvato due bandi volti a sostenere progetti capaci di offrire una risposta a queste problematiche e contrastare la povertà educativa. I bandi sono rivolti [...]
Enabling ecosystems for Social Enterprises and Social enterprises start-up in development projects
Social enterprises promote and contribute to human development and sustainable development at the local level. In particular they identify and offer solutions to social and environemental problems. social entrepreneurs develop new ideas and give life to innovative products, services or models by creating collaborations and partnerships with local actors. Thus, they are able to answer [...]
Monitoring and evaluation: with our partners in fighting educational poverty
Three proposals, one common goal: fighting educational poverty. 80 projects targeting children aged 0-6 and their families have been funded by the social enterprise "Con I Bambini", that is in charge of allocating the resourcse of a governmental fund established to contrast educational poverty. We are in charge of the monitoring and evaluation process of [...]
Buscamos un/a Investigador/a para la Evaluación Inicial de un proyecto en República Dominicana
ARCO es el centro de investigación encargado de realizar la evaluación inicial del proyecto Promoviendo derechos, fortaleciendo capacidades y creando oportunidades para la integración de mujeres privadas de libertad en la sociedad dominicana. Para realizar la evaluación incial del poyecto, la Unidad de M&E y Evaluación del Impacto está buscando un/a Investigador/a actualmente residente República […]
ICF language, towards a structured system of job placement for disadvantaged persons
Between October and November 2020, Regione Toscana together with ANCI Toscana promoted the project "Trainings for Accessible Communities". The project aims to create and implement free training courses to deepen and spread greater attention to accessibility in working environments. The training was directed in particular at managers and officials of Tuscan municipalities in the social, [...]
Gender Budgeting and participatory methods: ARCO’s contribution to Regione Emilia-Romagna guidelines
Regione Emilia Romagna recently published its “Guidelines for Gender Budgeting” to invite local municipalities to focus on a deeper analysis of their policies in terms of differentiated impact on women and men. These Guidelines have been inspired by the Well-Being BGbe approach and Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen’s Human Development Paradigm. The presented process for [...]
Impact evaluation of the projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors
In 2018, ARCO's Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Evaluation has been chosen as external evaluator in 5 projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors, managed by the social business Con i Bambini. Involved in 6 regional and national projects, Reserachers have developed and implemented, for esach, specific impact evaluation plans. An experience [...]