The Northern Ireland Community Safety Strategy identifies the need for research and evaluation in three key areas:
Local evaluations of programmes that have been found to be effective in significantly different circumstances (such as North America);
Evaluation of programmes that have been inadequately evaluated elsewhere; and
Long term evaluations of programmes aimed at reducing criminality.

Research
In its Strategy document, the Community Safety Unit has committed itself to commissioning a review of the ‘what works’ literature for community safety. It is hoped that this will lead to the provision of a searchable database of evaluated programmes that will be easily accessible by community safety practitioners.

Evaluation
Evaluations is the process of assessing, at a particular point in time, whether or not a project is achieving or has achieved its objectives. The evaluation of CSU funded community safety projects will be an on-going endeavour. As they become available, this section will feature Evaluation Highlights of CSU funded projects.



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