Le ricadute sociali di progetti multistakeholder di welfare di comunità

Journal title RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione
Author/s Alessia Argiolas, Liria Veronesi
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/92
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 34-56 File size 904 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIV2025-092003
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Five years after the launch of the initiative and one year after the end of financial support, a study has been conducted to evaluate the social impact generated by local welfare projects, promoted through a collaboration between public and private entities in Trentino. The aim of the study is the creation of an evaluation model for multistakeholder community welfare initiatives and its application to fourteen projects. The adopted methodology employs a participatory and multi-method approach. The study unfolded in two phases: the creation of a dashboard of smart indicators and the measurement of social implications on project participants concerning three dimensions: empowerment, psychological well-being and cohesive community. The results show a rather positive improvement in the considered impact dimensions and suggest encouraging the duration and frequency of project participation to bring about beneficial changes in the behaviours, perceptions and living conditions of the participants.

Keywords: community welfare; generative welfare; social impact; evaluation; impact measurement; indicators.

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Alessia Argiolas, Liria Veronesi, Le ricadute sociali di progetti multistakeholder di welfare di comunità in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 92/2025, pp 34-56, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2025-092003