Previous Clients / Projects

Prof Paul Montgomery has been working with WHO to look at the effectiveness and acceptability of School Health Systems. The project made a strong recommendation that Comprehensive school health services should be implemented. This is because all evidence consistently points in a beneficial direction, including evidence related to acceptability and equity;  the evidence suggests that – if school health services are implemented well – they will have lasting benefits for students;  the overall certainty of the evidence in the systematic reviews is moderate;  although there were no studies in low- and middle-income countries that provided high certainty evidence, the observational studies that took place in LMICs also identified benefits and did not identify significant harms; and schools offer a compelling, broad and relatively convenient opportunity to reach children and adolescents with needed comprehensive health services.

WHO guideline on school health services  (pdf)

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School Health Services Guideline (pdf)

Ten Thousand Starlings / Agathos Private Equity

Agathos is a private equity fund founded by William de Laszlo supporting small UK-trading businesses through times of transition. They help passionate local companies to be the best they can be — in business and their communities.

In 2016 Agathos commissioned me and Ten Thousand Starlings to independently evaluate the social impact of their investments. Our insights motivated Agathos to double down on their efforts to bring social considerations into all their investments.

The Childhood Trust

In early 2020 I conducted a review of The Childhood Trust’s impact and reporting strategies which included an extensive consultation with staff members of The Childhood Trust, Board Members and stakeholders including charity grantees.  The review was further informed by our literature review which focused on the way in which charities and funders measure child poverty in the UK and how they measure and report on their impact. 

We looked at The Childhood Trust’s (TCT) strategy and their current Theory of Change (ToC).  We reviewed the current reach of TCT namely, the types of charities and initiatives it currently funds. Understanding who the Trust currently reaches and how their funds are distributed across different types of charities, boroughs and interventions, is an important element of any strategy process.  This clarity better informs the decision as to which direction TCT would like to move next.  We also reviewed the reporting strategy, the way in which the charities supported are asked to inform the Trust on their progress and impact and made recommendations and developed some draft instruments that we hope the Trust could use in the future to improve the way it measures and monitors how well it’s delivering against its impact-driven strategy.

UNESCO

International technical guidance in sexuality education. An evidence-informed approach. UNESCO. 2018

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0026/002607/260770e.pdf.

This project was to assist with developing Guidance to emphasise the need for sexuality education programmes that are informed by evidence, adapted to the local context, and logically designed to measure and address factors such as beliefs, values, attitudes and skills which, in turn, may affect health and well-being in relation to sexuality.

My role here was to produce to review of evidence and work with stakeholders to ensure that their voices were heard throughout the process.