Welcome

The Centre for Effective Services (CES) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation funded jointly by philanthropy and government in Ireland. We are part of a new generation of intermediary organisations across the world working to apply learning from the emerging science of implementation to real world policy and practice concerns that affect children, families and communities.

Activites and Events

The Centre undertakes a wide range of projects ranging from work directed at whole-sector and strategic development of policy and practice in services for children, youth, families and communities to focused technical assistance to individual service-providing organisations.  We host public and by-invitation learning events including seminars and workshops exploring the concept and application of evidence in policy and practice. Events cater to different audiences and cover different themes, and combine expertise from Ireland and N Ireland with the latest thinking from other parts of the world.

Upcoming events to be hosted by the Centre:

• The second seminar in a series about the ‘what, why and how’ of evidence-informed policy making aimed at civil and public servants
• A seminar series on practice issues in designing, implementing and evaluating evidence-informed services (begins in Dublin, Cork and Galway, October 19-21st)
• Workshop on the evaluation of complex community initiatives exploring the themes of evaluability, balancing stakeholder expectations and knowledge transfer and utilisation in relation to a specific complex initiative in Dublin (November 2010)

For more information about these events, please contact office@effectiveservices.org