Monitoring and evaluating

It is important to build evaluation into your project from the beginning. This will help you to understand what the overall impact of the project has been on food and nutrition-related outcomes, and what works well and what doesn’t. It will also help to identify areas of success and areas for development and change relating to the project.

It is expected that once your programme has ended, or nine months from the start deadline of the project (1 March 2023), an evaluation form will be completed to show the impact of the project.

Support will be offered throughout the funded period to help you evaluate your project. If your application is successful, a measurement template, specific to your project, can be provided.

• increased access to nutritious and affordable food
• increased healthy cooking and food skills
• improvements in dietary behaviour

To help you measure the impact of your project on outcomes such as dietary behaviours, or cooking and food skills, there are questionnaire templates available for you to use.

We encourage you to use the templates at the beginning and end of your project to show the impact of your project. The templates can be used alongside other evaluation tools such as:

• focus groups
• before and after photographs
• verbal feedback from participants and volunteers/staff
• participant learning journals

This can provide you with a wider variety of feedback and reveal the broader impacts of the project.