Jeff Coutts and his team at Coutts J&R is about providing you with the expertise to systematically collect, interpret and effectively use the information you need to make the right decisions in your project and program. Our expertise is in establishing evaluation frameworks, planning and undertaking monitoring and evauation (or mentoring your staff as they undertake the process) and measuring and reporting on impact. Our challenge is to make sure that you have the information you need to make the most informed decisions and meet your reporting requirements.
The survey workshop we ran with Kerry Bell from Bellmetrics in Toowoomba has now been and gone! The 15 participants (across Health; State government; agriculture and post-graduate students) really got into it and shared their experience as well as posing insightful questions. As one participant put it…”What I liked most was actively involving participants so that they integrate the skills from workshop”. Our aim had been what one participant described on the feedback form...”Improved understanding of framework/structure, analysis of data (quantitative and qualitative) - and overall confidence of constructing a survey in future”.
There has been some interest expressed in having us run the workshop elsewhere in Australia and we are considering our options – If you have any ideas or see a need somewhere, please let us know!

I seem to have started a theme about experiences in other countries – and as I am freshly back from a holiday in South America, I thought I would continue the theme. Robyn and I teamed up with a group of mainly Toowoomba-ites, and marshaled by our common travel agent (Wendy), headed off to South America just after Easter. We had not been there before and it was all a bit of a mystery to me.