Libby Cooper
Libby operates as Director of Amber Analysis, a UK based research, evaluation and capacity building consultancy that works internationally and in the UK with charities, NGOs and community organisations; with grant making organisations; and with central and local government departments. It aims to:
* Improve the quality of social change programmes
* Strengthen the effectiveness of international and UK based charities, NGOs and community organisations
* Influence the grant-making and evaluation strategies of donors
Libby works in the UK and internationally on:
- Programme and project evaluation
- Developing a Theory of Change
- Developing evaluation frameworks
- Organisational review
- Project and grants assessment
- Capacity building and organisational/project development
- Strategic planning
- Training in organisational management and self-evaluation
- Needs assessment
- Research into social development and civil society
- Developing grant-making and evaluation policies for donors
- Government and civil society relations – international
Recent clients include:
The Directory of Social Change: Evaluation of their Armed Forces Charities Project
Civil Society Development Foundation: Helped to develop a new strategic plan for this grant-giving Foundation
Seychelles Ministry of Labour: Research study into youth unemployment
Target TB: Design of a Theory of Change and evaluation framework for all programmes across Africa and Asia and an evaluation training programme in Zambia for all partners
DFID: Assessment of civil society projects working on poverty issues
EC programme in Bosnia: Capacity building of civil society organisations to help them engage in policy dialogue with government
British Red Cross: Evaluation of a refugee programme
Mencap: Two evaluations of a national programme for people with learning disabilities
Equinet: Four yearly evaluations of Equinet – a network of 37 Equality Bodies across 27 European countries