Author Archives: Amira Tharani

About Amira Tharani

Amira is a senior consultant at NCVO Charities Evaluation Services working across projects including delivering open and in-house training, supporting clients to build their evaluation capacity, conducting external evaluations, and supporting clients with strategy development.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) round-up: September 2020

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Amira Tharani

The second of our EDI round-ups where members of our internal EDI working group take turns to share what they’ve been reading and thinking about over the last month. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: May 2020

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Amira Tharani

Each month at NCVO Charities Evaluation Services we summarise the latest news in impact and evaluation and share useful guides, resources and data collection tools. This month we are focusing on tools and techniques for adapting evaluation in response to covid-19. Continue reading →

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Equity, diversity and inclusion: Our journey so far – Part 1

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Amira Tharani

NCVO has begun its very own EDI consultation process. Throughout this, we'd like to share our journey as we develop our learning. We begin by exploring our motivations to start this work and how it's materialised so far. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: February 2020

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Amira Tharani

Our monthly digest of the latest impact and evaluation news and resources. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: January 2020

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Amira Tharani

Our monthly digest of the latest impact and evaluation news and resources. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: December 2019

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Amira Tharani

A festive edition of our monthly impact round-up where we summarise the latest news in impact and evaluation, and share useful guides and resources. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: October 2019

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Amira Tharani

It's been a busy month for impact and evaluation news. We look at evaluation for volunteer managers, a new assessment tool, our findings on Volunteers' Week, and more. Continue reading →

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Volunteers’ Week: What we learned

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Amira Tharani

As soon as one Volunteers' Week finishes, planning for the next one begins. Here's what we learned from evaluating this year's event. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: September 2019

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Amira Tharani

In this month's round up we highlight a few impressive impact reports, outline key findings from the Lloyds Bank Foundation's experience of working on 'grants plus' projects and an assessment of the impact of advocacy by Bond in their conference earlier this year. Continue reading →

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Impact round-up: August 2019

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Amira Tharani

Each month at NCVO Charities Evaluation Services we summarise the latest news in impact and evaluation and share useful guides, resources and data collection tools. Continue reading →

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