Il concetto di impatto sociale ha ricevuto una crescente attenzione negli ultimi anni, in particolare dopo la legge di Riforma del Terzo Settore che introduce nell’ordinamento la sua valutazione. La Riforma infatti definisce la valutazione di impatto sociale come una “valutazione quantitativa e qualitativa sul breve, medio e lungo periodo degli effetti delle attività svolte [...]

In un momento in cui l'emergenza sanitaria ha acuito le disuguaglianze e le fragilità dei giovani e delle loro famiglie, il Ministero per le Pari Opportunità e per la Famiglia ha approvato due bandi volti a sostenere progetti capaci di offrire una risposta a queste problematiche e contrastare la povertà educativa. I bandi sono rivolti [...]

Social enterprises promote and contribute to human development and sustainable development at the local level. In particular they identify and offer solutions to social and environemental problems: social entrepreneurs develop new ideas and give life to innovative products, services or models by creating collaborations and partnerships with local actors. Thus, they are able to answer [...]

Three proposals, one common goal: fighting educational poverty. 80 projects targeting children aged 0-6 and their families have been funded by the social enterprise "Con I Bambini", that is in charge of allocating the resourcse of a governmental fund established to contrast educational poverty. We are in charge of the monitoring and evaluation process of [...]

Between October and November 2020, Regione Toscana together with ANCI Toscana promoted the project "Trainings for Accessible Communities". The project aims to create and implement free training courses to deepen and spread greater attention to accessibility in working environments. The training was directed in particular at managers and officials of Tuscan municipalities in the social, [...]

In 2018, ARCO's Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Evaluation has been chosen as external evaluator in 5 projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors, managed by the social business Con i Bambini. Involved in 6 regional and national projects,  Reserachers have developed and implemented, for esach, specific impact evaluation plans. An experience [...]

In October 2020, a small group of beneficiaries of REI, Inclusion's Income, has been involved by the Inclusive Development Unit in an Emancipatory Research process. The research group is made of women, who use Prato's Social Services. The objective of this process is threefold: first, it will allow users to share their experience about the [...]

Community health insurance (CHI) aims to provide financial protection and facilitate health care access among poor rural populations. However, the full development of this scheme is hampered by multiple operational challenges. There is a need to undertake systematic feasibility studies, which are present in the literature, but they usually do not provide a comprehensive analysis [...]