Manual on Innovative Methods to Assess Social Innovation and its Impacts. Deliverable 4.3, Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas Project (SIMRA)

Deliverable 4.3 is the final output of a very complex process which aimed at a progressive and incremental improvement of the set of methods, used in the SIMRA project, for evaluating Social Innovation in marginalized rural areas and its impacts. The process of developing and finalising the set of methods has involved almost all of the project partners and lasted approximately 20 calendar months. The process has enabled a detailed refinement of the set of methods, leading to this final output. This Deliverable is divided into 2 parts: PART I – MOVING FROM THE PRELIMINARY TO THE FINAL SET OF METHODS, provides an explanation of the process of revision based on feedback collected from their empirical applications and the principal changes made to the preliminary set to reach this final version. PART II – THE SIMRA MANUAL FOR THE EVALUATION OF SOCIAL INNOVATION IN MARGINALIZED RURAL AREAS, consists of an empirically tested, practicable, and usable version of a comprehensive Manual. It guides evaluators and other interested users through the steps needed for carrying out in practice an evaluation of social innovation initiatives and their impacts in marginalised rural areas.