An example of an evaluation process can be seen following the pilot project led by the Mayor of London. The MOPAC Harmful Practices Pilot aimed to improve the way agencies identify and respond to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), ‘Honour’ Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriage (FM), and Faith Based Abuse (FBA), with a focus on early identification and prevention, safeguarding and support, and community engagement. It involved three key areas of work: training for professionals; an Educator Advocate (EA) service and community engagement activity. The final evaluation report built on a year one interim report produced in June 2016, which focused primarily on implementation, views of those attending the first tranche of training sessions, and the early experiences of professionals and communities receiving services as part of pilot delivery.
The aims of the evaluation were to critically review implementation, capture the views of practitioners and capture the views of communities. According to the report, the ‘evaluation fieldwork incorporated a holistic range of methods to capture both the numbers and the stories’ of those involved in the pilot’. This included: stakeholder surveys, training feedback surveys, community engagement surveys, semi-structured face-to-face or telephone interviews with stakeholders, pilot staff, practitioners, and clients; observations at four training sessions and five community engagement events; and performance data around both individual cases supported and overall pilot delivery.