Previous Projects Carried Out by Libby Cooper

1. Designing grant-making programmes and developing evaluation policies for donors

• UK donors: a variety of consultancies to help them establish policies and systems for monitoring and evaluating their programmes (1984-2001).
• Home Office Active Community Unit: a review and development of their Monitoring and Evaluation System (2000).
• Home Office Race Equality Unit: the formulation of a grant assessment and evaluation procedure including a Risk Audit for a new programme (2000).
• National Audit Office: a Benchmarking Study of Good Practice in Monitoring and Evaluating Voluntary Sector Grant Giving, used for auditing the National Lottery Charities Board (1999).
• National Lottery Charities Board International: advised on funding strategies in CEE countries (1996).
• Co-Operation for Development: designing a new funding programme in the Caribbean (1995).
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ODA: development of systems for Charity Know How (1993).

2. Developing self-evaluation systems

• UK and international donors and charities/NGOs: the provision of self-evaluation support and technical assistance to a large number of initiatives (1984-2003).
• The Federation of Irish Advice Centres: the design of a computerised system to enable the monitoring of and networking among Advice Centres providing services to Irish communities in the UK (1997).

3. Programme, project, and outcome evaluations

• World-wide Initiatives for Grant-making Support: evaluation of their three-year programme of support to grant-makers across the world (2002).
• Help the Aged: evaluation of 'Speaking up for Ourselves' UK grants programme (1999-2000).
• Motor Neurone Disease Association: evaluation of their Care and Research programme (1996-1999).
• Mott Foundation: evaluation of the CAF-Mott Challenge Grants programme to assess its role in developing Community Foundations across the UK (1992-1994).
• Academy for Educational Development: evaluation of USAID's NGO development Training program in Croatia (2000).
• The European Foundation Centre - evaluation of the EFC Orpheus Programme (2001).
• Department for International Development: evaluation of first year's operational plan, the development of a second year's operational plan and a programme management cycle for Civic Initiatives, Croatia (2000).
• International Meeting for Grantmakers (IMAG): evaluation of their conference in Mexico and follow-up study of outcomes for participants across 26 countries (1999).
• Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mott Foundation: programmatic evaluation of training and development programmes for the NGO sector in five CEE countries - included running seminars for the donors on strategies for funding NGO programmes in CEE countries (1998).
• Mott Foundation: evaluation of NGO Resource Centres in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic with one overall report and five country reports (1995).
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ODA: outcome evaluation of Charity Know How in Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria (1994).
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ODA: evaluation of the early set-up of Charity Know How (1992).

4. Needs assessment and grants assessment

• The Foreign Office's Know How Fund: a needs assessment of the NGO sector in Croatia (1998).
• Christian Children's Fund of Great Britain: programme assessment in Russia of the potential for fostering and adoption (1994).
• The Foreign Office's Know How Fund: a needs assessment of the NGO sector in Serbia (1995).
• The Foreign Office's Know How Fund: a needs assessment of the NGO sector in Romania (1994).
• Co-operation for Development: project assessment in Belize, Guyana and Venezuela (1995).

5. Organisational development and strategic planning

• The European Commission: consultancy to establish the Civil Society Development Foundation in Romania, including the development of a strategy, a programme management cycle, procedures for giving grants and for evaluating them (1995 - 1997).
• ODRAZ, Croatia: capacity building to help establish a new NGO - developing aims and objectives and procedures for designing and managing projects, establishing monitoring and evaluation systems and governance procedures (2001).

6. Training and capacity building

• British Embassy, Argentina: advised members of the Argentine government on the development of a Compact between government and NGOs. Trained members of the Social Development Unit of the Argentine government in the principles of good grant-making and the evaluation of social programmes, and trained donors in the principles of good grant-making to NGOs (2000).
• British Embassy, Argentina: three training programmes in management development for NGOs in Argentina, covering strategic planning, HRM, managing volunteers, monitoring and evaluation and fundraising (1999).
• British Council: trained staff members and assessors of the Social Development Fund in Romania in the principles of assessing projects and monitoring and evaluating social programmes (1999).
• Department for International Development: strategic planning and technical assistance to help establish a new community development NGO - the Civic Initiatives, Croatia (1998).
• Know How Fund: three-year Training of Trainers programme for management development of NGOs in Romania (1995-98).
• Know How Fund: two-year Training of Trainers programme for management development of NGOs in Serbia (1996-98).
• Civic Initiatives, Serbia: management development training for NGOs in Montenegro (1997).
• Co-operation for Development: training in the development and management of Posadas in Venezuela (1996).
• Civil Society Development Foundation: Trained Board members in principles of good grant giving, assessment of grants and evaluation (1997).
• National Democratic Institute: training in capacity building for NGOs dealing with elections in Bulgaria (1996).
• National Democratic Institute: training in capacity building for NGOs from Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Estonia, Croatia, Poland - held in Hungary (1993).
• Westminster Foundation: training in management development for NGOs in Serbia (1994).
• Black Sea University: training in institutional development for NGOs (1992-1995).

7. Social research

• Research into the effects of the new legislation for asylum seekers upon the development of Refugee Community Organisations in the UK (2000-1).
• Research into the research activities of the UK voluntary sector: longitudinal studies conducted over a period of 15 years, tracing the changes that have taken place (between 1985-2000).
• An exploratory study of Hammersmith & Fulham Council policy and practice, and local support services concerning the issue of Domestic Violence (1989).
• North London University: research into the emerging NGO sector in Russia and CEE countries (1988).
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