About Us – Development Focus

Development Focus was founded in October 1997

Examples of our work in the UK: Better Buses and Safer Street for Longsight and Health Needs Assessment in Langley Green - two reports documenting our Community Assessment and Action (CAA) participatory research methodology. Example of our participatory evaluation work Evaluation of the Croydon Children’s Fund

Examples of our international work: Training in child rights and participatory research methods for PLAN International Indonesia, view the video documenting this process; ‘Rights through Evaluation’ a DFID-funded project looking at extent to which evaluation of development projects took into account impact on children’s lives, download final reports. Save the Children report Gaining Respect: Children in Conflict with the Law was produced as a contribution to the UN Study on Violence Against Children from the International Save the Children Alliance.