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This chapter considers the growth of impact measurement in the Third Sector, and particularly the implications for smaller community organisations. Based on participative action research and reflective community development practice, we argue that the best way to understand the difference that community organisations make may not be through formulaic frameworks, but by starting from the real experiences of community organisations, their analysis of their context and those they work with, and by finding ways to understand and communicate these internally and externally.
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Jones, H., Jones, V., Cock, J.C. (2013). Impact Measurement or Agenda-Setting?. In: Mayo, M., Mendiwelso-Bendek, Z., Packham, C. (eds) Community Research for Community Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034748_3
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