Dovetail Consulting Ltd

Dovetail provides evaluation, research and facilitation services to support positive change in communities and systems. We work with people and organisations to evaluate, understand, and improve the differences they are making. Our insights enable learning, development, improvement and evidence-based decision making. Our work bridges the worlds of funders, service providers, professionals and community interest groups.* We assist funders to understand the impact of their investments.* We assist service providers to enable change and improvement.* We assist community organisations to capture and convey the impact of their work. Dovetail’s expertise includes the health, social, transport, creative, philanthropic, local government, education, and sport and recreation sectors. We work with public, private and community sector organisations. We work with organisations to ensure that robust evaluative thinking and systems are built up-front in programme and service design. Our offerings include:* Programme evaluation – to explore impacts and learning for future development * Evaluation capacity building – to build a culture of performance and critical reflection * Qualitative research – to explore the underlying norms and experiences that shape people’s lives * Quantitative data analysis – to see the patterns within the complexity of data * Facilitation – to explore perspectives, shared goals and future directions * Literature analysis – to reflect on the evidence base and the future opportunities * Health and social impact assessment – to support communities by identifying impacts of policy and planning, and create positive change