Education Projects

EEF Evaluation Of formal Education Projects

Projects that include the employment of officers or development of resources to provide environmental education programmes to schools must be evaluated by the Environmental Education Forum prior to submission to NIEA.

Sections A and B of the NHGP Application Form, and any supporting information you wish to include, must be submitted to the Environmental Education Forum Co-ordinator for comment by the EEF deadline. The EEF Management Committee will comment on the application and return it to you to enable you to consider their comments, and alter your application if appropriate, prior to submission to NH by the given deadline. The diagram below provides more detail of this process:

You should therefore ensure that the information you provide in Sections A and B of the application form is sufficient to allow EEF to evaluate the projects adequately.

Contact details for the EEF Co-ordinator :

eef@nienvironmentlink.org

Tel: 9094 2156

NI Environment Link

89 Loopland Drive,

Belfast

BT6 9DW

EEF will provide comment on the following questions:

Natural Heritage Priority Themes

• EEF view of the project's contribution to Natural Heritage Priority Themes.
• How will this project lead to changes in attitude and result in personal action?

Curriculum

• How does the project fit in with the curriculum?
• Is the project designed in such a way that teachers/leaders will be able to take advantage of the resources it offers?

Duplication and Partnerships

• Are there any similar programmes, not identified by the applicant, which currently provide similar goals or resources in this locality? Is there evidence of a demand for more resources to help meet this education need?
• Is there anything further that the applicant could do to make their project more complementary to existing projects or to cover gaps in existing provision?

Partnerships

• Does EEF have any suggestions about how the project might benefit from sharing of resources with another provider of environmental education?

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Does EEF suggest any alternative or additional measures of success or evaluation for this project?

Comments and suggestions

• Does EEF wish to make any further suggestions for this project?

On return of this form, the applicant will complete the following question, prior to the submission of the whole application (with this form) to NHGP:

Please describe have you incorporated EEF comments into your application or explain why comments have not been taken on board.