Harvard Frontiers of Innovation
Service development and evaluation
Over the last few years, both the Dartington Service Design Lab and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University have been working on approaches to help accelerate the impact of early years services. In 2019, Dartington – in collaboration with the Harvard Center – ran three days of training on the IDEAS Impact Framework: a new approach to service development and evaluation, created by the Center.
Work to date
In 2019, we brought the Harvard Center on the Developing Child IDEAS Impact Framework training to UK for the first time. Across the three-day event, we trained more than 100 attendees on the Center’s science-based innovations and approaches to help accelerate the impact of early years services. The event was followed by a two-day intensive course with smaller teams of service providers and delivery organisations. These workshops focused on applying the Center’s IDEAS Impact Framework to reshape the organisations’ theories of change and rapid cycle evaluation plans.
What next?
We continue to work with Harvard and to use their IDEAS Impact Framework to support early years organisations in developing science-based theories of change and evaluation plans.
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