Welcome to OffPAT

(Office of Project & Programme Advice & Training)

OffPAT provides support to its member organisations *see list below, to support their joint effort on identifying, developing and disseminating best practice in project and programme appraisal, delivery and evaluation in the context of H M Treasury's Green Book - Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government, CLG's (Department of Communities and Local Government) 3Rs Guidance on Assessing the Impacts of Spatial Interventions (Regeneration, Renewal and Regional Development) and BERR's (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) Guidance for RDAs in Appraisal, Delivery & Evaluation (GRADE). In doing so it services the OffPAT Steering Group (OSG), the OffPAT Practitioners Group (OPG) and task and finish sub groups whose membership, in addition to the above, includes the Agencies sponsoring Departments, the contributing Departments and the Government Offices. The OSG is chaired by an RDA Chief Executive, currently Jeff Moore of emda.

*the Regional Development Agencies, the London Development Agency, English Partnerships, the Welsh Assembly Government, London Thames Gateway, Thurrock Thames Gateway and West Northamptonshire Urban Development Corporations.

Functions

OffPAT's functions are to:

• Service the joint OffPAT Steering Group and its Practitioners Group and assist them to identify their requirements for best practice advice and training
• Produce or procure best practice advice and get it endorsed by the OffPAT Practitioners Group
• Provide or procure the appropriate training
• Maintain effective links to the sponsor Departments and other sources of best practice expertise.

Links

OffPAT has a system for identifying and repairing broken links to other sites so if you come across a broken link it will be repaired shortly. This includes links within OffPAT's own publications which have been broken by the actions of others.