Connecting South West Programme
The Brief: Assist in the establishment and development of the sub-regional partnerships tasked with rolling out broadband and boosting take up levels across the region. Using our abilities in partnership building, monitoring and evaluation and research we have engaged with each of the sub-regional partners and devised the ICT Development Framework, which has been used as a basis for developing and appraising other sub-regional ICT projects.
We examined the effectiveness of the campaign to date. But also, we focused on what Aspire Partnership Limited – the company managing the campaign – and regional stakeholders need to do to maximise the campaign’s future effectiveness. It achieved this by analysing performance data and undertaking qualitative consultations with key stakeholders ranging from funding bodies, the Board, the Executive Team, partners, businesses and young people too.
We produced an evaluation report, a ‘change management’ report and most interestingly, facilitated a workshop. Here we supported the Aspire Board, the Aspire Executive Team and the Funding Agencies to discus the outcomes of the evaluation and how to progress with the future direction of the campaign.
This study demonstrates the company’s strengths in research and, taking that one step further, providing value-added consultancy support. In providing a set of solutions, our work is giving stakeholders a choice and an opportunity to think about how to maximize the long-term effectiveness of the campaign.
Sheffield