An interim evaluation of the Sahara Project

Rogers, MM

Abstract

The University of Salford has been commissioned
by Manchester Women’s Aid to conduct an
interim evaluation following the first two years
of the Sahara Project from 1 November 2014 to
1 November 2016. This will provide Manchester
Women’s Aid with the opportunity to evaluate
and plan for service provision beyond the end
point of the three-year funding. This evaluation
will also enable Manchester Women’s Aid (MWA)
to demonstrate accountability to the Big Lottery
providing an evidence-base to be used in future
tendering processes. The following questions were
addressed by the evaluation:
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• To what extent has the Sahara Project met its
intended outcomes?
• How effective is the current model (consisting of
casework and groupwork) in terms of outcomes
from the perspective of stakeholders including:
service users; and service providers who refer to
the Sahara Project?
• What would have happened were service users
not able to access the service? Would there
have been implications, such as cost or limited
alternative service provision?
• What impact has the service had on the lives of
BME women and children living with or fleeing
DVA in the city of Manchester?
The BAMER category captures a wide range of
backgrounds and ethnicities and in addition to
the evaluation of existing service provision, MWA
has a particular interest in gaining better insight
into those groups of women and children from the
BAMER umbrella for whom there are more barriers
to accessing their services. As a result, a targeted
consultation exercise supplemented this evaluation
with feedback gained from members of a group
identified as harder-to-reach than others in the
BAMER category; the Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT)
community.

Citation

Rogers, M. (2017). An interim evaluation of the Sahara Project

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: May 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 24, 2017
• Additional Information: Projects : An Interim Evaluation of the Sahara Project