‘L’Oasi dei Bambini’ is an innovative project that combines the efforts of Casa delle Stelle, dedicated to the care and reception of vulnerable minors, with those of Domus de Luna, focused on environmental protection and conservation. Social and environmental aspects come together in an initiative that promotes growth paths for disadvantaged minors and preventive activities for school children and adolescents.

The project is carried out in the Oasi del Cervo e della Luna in Sardinia (Ca), the largest WWF Oasis in Italy. Thanks to co-financing from Con i Bambini and the Fondazione di Sardegna, this oasis aims to become one of the most important in the country, capable of attracting local minors, visiting families, and school groups, offering a place rich in environmental and educational attractions.

As part of the project, the creation of an adventure park, educational activities with animals, a distributed educational pavilion, laboratories that combine technology and the environment, and activities dedicated to the educational community are planned. All of this is made possible thanks to the synergistic collaboration with 12 partners for the implementation of outdoor activities: Domus de Luna, Atto D’Amore, Punti di Vista, Teatro Impossibile, Buoni e Cattivi, Compagnia B, GOEL, Dotik, Isperantzia, Ferai Teatro, Gea Ambiente e Turismo, and the Juvenile Justice Center.

The project offers innovative experiences and adventurous and stimulating activities based on the methodology of Active Education and Adventure Pedagogy, with the aim of reconnecting young people with nature and enhancing their ability to act, build, and put into practice knowledge and teachings related to sustainability. There are also planned professional training experiences and restorative justice pathways for minors followed by the Juvenile Justice Center, as well as pathways for work inclusion and strengthening parenting skills for parents detained in Uta prison.

As part of the project, PuntoSud promotes the impact evaluation as a project partner according to the guidance provided by Impresa Sociale Con I Bambini.

Impact evaluation follows a theory-based approach. The use of mixed qualitative and qualitative-quantitative evaluation methods and tools is promoted, with a focus on enhancing the internal monitoring tools already in use by the lead partner, complementing it with other tools and sources of detection.

Main activities:

• Explication of the Theory of Change underlying the main impacts of the project in terms of short-, medium- and long-term outcomes and identification of the implicit or indirect impacts that are useful in giving maximum value to the results achieved.
• Definition of the evaluation matrix in order to collect quantitative values to complement the more purely qualitative indicators. The process of defining the matrix will be carried out in a participatory manner, with the lead partner, the partnership, the internal contact person for monitoring, and Impresa Sociale Con I Bambini, in order to share goals, tools and objectives, but above all the value and importance of the process for all stakeholders.
• Definition of the operational plan and its timeline.
• Periodic data collection through semi-structured interviews, focus groups, questionnaires in order to be able to capture the change over time in the intercepted beneficiaries (data collection at time zero, halfway through the project cycle, at its conclusion and two years after completion).
• Organization of restitution and sharing meetings with the lead partner and the partnership at key evaluation stages.
• Preparation of the Final Impact Report.