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Catalyst Research and Development
Catalyst Research and Development
Facilitating positive, sustainable change WITH people
Facilitating positive, sustainable change WITH people
Expertise
We conduct, and co-create with clients, high-quality evaluation and research, and help clients build capacity to use knowledge - to catalyze and sustain positive change.
Evaluation Design & Implementation
- Developmental evaluation
- Collective Impact
- Frameworks for Evaluation - with theory of change, logic models, indicators, outcome matrix
- Formative & process assessment
- Summative, outcome assessment
- Capacity to collaborate
- Capacity to create change
- Evaluability Assessment
- Feasibility
- Mixed methods - qualitative & quantitative
- Meta-evaluation
- Economic Analysis (e.g., Return on Investment)
Strategic Planning
- Benchmarking
- Stakeholder analysis
- Environmental scans
- Service delivery frameworks
- Planning session facilitation
- Sustainability planning
Mindful of Diverse & Equity-seeking Groups and Communities
- Those experiencing violence (gender, interpersonal, domestic)
- Indigenous, First Nations, Aboriginal, Metis
- Newcomer - Immigrant, Refugee
- Vulnerable, At-risk
- Urban, rural & remote
- Across the Lifespan - Early childhood & young families, children and youth, adult, older adults
Research
- Environmental Scan
- Gender Based Analysis (GBA+)
- Participatory action research
- Literature review
- Logic Analysis
- Policy development
- Ethics
Organizational Capacity Building
- Capacity Frameworks
- RoadMaps
- Training
- Policy
- Quality Assurance
- Performance Monitoring
- Toolkits
Knowledge Mobilization & Utilization
- Positive change in programs, policies & practices
- Translation
- Presentations
- Publications
- Data parties & Innovation workshops
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