Summary: The evaluation of social policies seeks to obtain information that is useful for improving the service, from the political decision-maker to the teams that carry it out. Specifically, the evaluation of social policies aims to: generate information for decision-making, use this information for the teams’ and organisations’ own learning, improve transparency and accountability, and increase knowledge about social problems (Zalba et al. 2020).

Objective: To evaluate the social and economic impact of social service providers, i.e. to evaluate the impact of the social policy of social services channelled through partner organisations.