
IFF Research was commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission to conduct a review of its Strategic Funding Programme (SFP). This review was intended to: help determine whether the Commission had processes in place to ensure those organisations (Grantees) funded via the SFP had made proper use of SFP resources; assess whether the agreed project outcomes had been achieved and the extent to which this was attributable to SFP support; elicit grantee views on the management of the SFP and of the funding strategy and arrangements associated with it; and, based on this evidence, suggest ways in which a future grant scheme of this nature might be improved.