Assessment Resource
| ID | INDIGO-ARES-0040 |
|---|---|
| Assessment Resource - Status | PUBLIC |
| Assessment Resource - Name | Improving Quality (IQ) Assessment |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Public Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Private Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Third Sector | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Monetary Valuation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Non-monetary quant index | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Ordinal | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Qualitative only | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Quant but no index | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Ongoing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Prospective | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Retrospective | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Micro | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Meso | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Macro | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Agnostic | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Defence | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Democracy | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Development/ Poverty Reduction | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Education | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Employment/ Financial well-being | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Health | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Housing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Local rejuvenation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - SDG oriented | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Social impact | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Sustainability/ Eco | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Well-being | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Case Study | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Classification | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Consultancy | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Framework | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Guide | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Dataset | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Principles | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Reporting Standards | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Resource Repository or Summary | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Training Programme | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Outsource to Vendor | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Paid tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Proprietary in-house | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Self-driven | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Attribution | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Diff-in-Diff statistical analysis | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Ex-ante projections | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Focus Groups | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Framework agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Interviews | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Mission Alignment | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Observation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Operational Data | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - RCTs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Surveys | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Theory of Change | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Before and After | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Charity | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - CSR | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Development | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Governance/ Policy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Green Book | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Healthcare | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - IGOs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Impact investing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Microfinance | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - SIBs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Social Enterprises | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Sustainability/ Eco | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developed Countries | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developing Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - Internal | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - External | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Leader | Improving Quality |
| Assessment Resource - Purpose | Improving Quality is the quality scheme written to be used both as a self assessment tool as well as external assessment. Its focus is on elements that all not for profit organisations need. Although written to target small organisations, it is equally applicable to larger ones. Improving Quality is the only sectoral quality mark that covers the work of charities and other organisations: no other assurance award addresses all the essential areas necessary for the effective management and governance of a charity or other third sector organisation. |
| Assessment Resource - Content | IQ addresses all the key areas of organisational life in 4 elements: Accountable – Good Governance, Leadership and management Welcoming – Involving Service users, managing and developing Staff and Volunteers, Equality and Diversity and working with others Effective – refers to the services that an organisations provides and the planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation that the organisations carries out Sustainable – How the organisation manages, risk, money and the resources to make service delivery happen |
| Assessment Resource - Link | http://improvingquality.org.uk/ |