Evaluation

In late 2006, Fondazione Cariplo set up its Evaluation Team to analyze, monitor and assess the projects and initiatives funded or directly carried out by our Foundation.

Evaluation pursues three goals:

Accountability: giving a fully transparent account of our Foundation’s actions, generating insights and systematizing qualitative and quantitative information for stakeholders to get a clear view of how Fondazione Cariplo spent funds (input) and what was accomplished (output) with them within communities.

Critical analysis for improvement: conducting reviews and analyses of processes and ways in which funds were given through calls for proposals and to our own projects, and of midpoint achievements for continuous improvement of our Foundation’s action.

Gaining insights that help orient future actions by our Foundation and policy-makers: conducting reviews and analyses of processes, outputs, and, whenever possible, the impact of policies used by our Foundation to see what worked and what didn’t work in certain pilot interventions and to disseminate findings in order to orient future actions by our Foundation and policy-makers.

To achieve these goals, the members of the Evaluation Team avail themselves of a number of specific operational instruments for each of the Foundation’s philanthropic activities and the grant-making conduits through which funds are conveyed.