Development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the Local Air Quality Grant Scheme

Full project title: Development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the local Air Quality Grant Scheme (Call off from framework contract)

Duration: 2023

Project lead for CESR: Professor Jo Barnes

Other UWE Bristol researchers: 

• Professor Enda Hayes
• Dr Ben Williams
• Dr Margarida Sardo
• Dr Tamara Bozovic
• Dr Louis Brown

Research partner/collaborator: Ricardo Energy & Environment (Ricardo)

Funder: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)

Defra commissioned Ricardo Energy & Environment (Ricardo), in partnership with MEL Research and UWE Bristol, to develop a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework, provide suggestions as to how the management and reporting processes of the Air Quality Grant Scheme (AQGS) funding to local authorities could be improved, and identify whether and how the impact of the programme could be increased going forward.

• Report to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)

For further information about the project, please contact Professor Jo Barnes (jo.barnes@uwe.ac.uk).