Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund Phase 4

The contract will deliver the fourth phase of monitoring and evaluation for the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF). It seeks to apply the previously developed monitoring and evaluation framework for CSFF to include the groups who started in 2020, review and update the spatial analysis of what the current CS agreements within Facilitation Fund Groups are achieving, and the gaps in and around each group to identify opportunities for expansion, or encouraging group creation in that area. It also aims to capture some of the narrative from experience with regard to the benefits (or not) of being part of a group together with an assessment of the use of technological aids and how these have helped or hindered progress of groups' ambitions and the well-being of their members.

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