Evaluations

Robust and Independent Assessment

We provide independent evaluation of policies, programmes and services. We offer the full range of evaluation services – from rapid “in flight” reviews to complex, large-scale and multi-year evaluations.

We work with you and your stakeholders to design and implement reviews and evaluations using customised approaches that are tailored to the context.

Our evaluators are skilled in a range of evaluation theories, and qualitative and quantitative methods. This means we can deliver a comprehensive evaluation product.

What we do

We provide end-to-end evaluation services, including:

Developing outcomes frameworks, logic models and results measurement frameworks
Ex ante appraisal (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, economic impact analysis, regulatory impact analysis, business cases)
Stakeholder engagement, including interviews and focus groups, consultation documents and submissions analysis
Results monitoring
Evaluation scoping and design
Independent evaluations and reviews
Policy development, programme design and service planning.

Methods we often use include:

In-depth interviews and focus groups
Surveys (including paper-based and online)
Case studies
Data analysis, including analysis of statistical and administrative data, and advanced modelling
Quantification of “hard to measure” outcomes such as intangible social, economic and cultural impacts
Analysis of financial performance, efficiency and value for money.

Publications

Evaluation of the St John Clinical Hub
Evaluation of MFAT’s Partnerships Fund
Evaluation of the Rugby World Cup 2011 – Auckland
The cost effectiveness of bowel cancer screening in New Zealand: A cost-utility analysis based on pilot results
Review of the transforming dairy value chain primary growth partnership

Our team has decades of experience in the provision of expert evaluation services, ranging from large and complex matters (with quantum exceeding $100 million) to small quantum or single-issue matters.

Key contacts

Matt Balmford

Director
MELBOURNE
mbalmford@thinkSapere.com

David Moore

Managing Director
WELLINGTON
dmoore@thinkSapere.com

Dr Tom Love

Director
WELLINGTON
tlove@thinkSapere.com

David Graham

Managing Director
MELBOURNE
dgraham@thinkSapere.com

Some of our recent articles of interest

The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

Client: Sustainable Business Network

This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.

The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

Client: Chorus

This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.

Making New Zealand safer: regulating the engineering profession

Client: Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment

Sapere prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to support MBIE’s proposal for an occupational regulatory regime for engineers.

Infrastructure consenting for climate targets

Client: Te Waihanga / New Zealand Infrastructure Commission

This research models the impact on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets if the current resource consenting system continues to delay decisions on infrastructure project consenting.

Māori Primary Health Care

Client: Wai 2575 Claimants

Sapere were asked by the claimants to respond to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that a methodology be developed to measure the degree of underfunding of Māori PHOs and providers.

Sizing of the backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia

Client: Australian Eggs

Which came first the chicken or the egg? We don’t have the answer to that, but we do know the size of backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia.

A chance to make clinical trials sustainable, effective, and equitable in Aotearoa New Zealand

Client: Liggins Institute University of Auckland

Sapere provided extensive analytical support to a consortium of researchers from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago on a Health Research Council (HRC) and Ministry of Health funded research project. The consortium was brought together to review Aotearoa New Zealand’s clinical trials activity and infrastructure.