Self-assessment and evaluation frameworks come under scrutiny
A new self-assessment framework, Investing in Governance, has been developed by Stefan Kuchar as part of his MBA at Henley Business School...
It involved undertaking a literature review of best governance practices from the UK and internationally and testing the best practice findings in a research study with leading charities. Compliant with the Code of Good Governance (see this issue's viewpoint article), the framework is designed to identify the changes boards of trustees wish to bring about to increase their effectiveness and performance.
Kuchar told Caritas that his research suggested that the Code of Good Governance has only had ‘limited success in changing the culture of poor board practices, which many of our charities have tolerated for far too long’.
The lack of monitoring and evaluation in the voluntary sector was highlighted in the recent report published by Charities Evaluation Services: Accountability and Learning: Developing Monitoring and Evaluation in the Third Sector. It calls for a greater match between third sector accountability requirements and the information needs for developing learning in the sector. The study involved more than 700 third sector organisations and more than 100 funders and commissioners.
One funder contributing to the report makes the point: ‘Funders aren’t usually prepared to pay for a charity’s monitoring and evaluation and the charity doesn’t have the resources to pay to make a good job of it themselves… Funders need to be more realistic and invest more in the monitoring and evaluation of the charities they fund.’
www.investingingovernance.org.uk
www.ces-vol.org.uk/downloads/cesresearchreport-320-328.pdf
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