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Delivery against agreed outcomes and KPIs One desire of the project partners was also for this project
to help them build relationships with the CBs and nations
Outcomes involved and to improve the perceptions they had of these
To measure the Unity Project’s performance against the outcomes, Regeneris rugby and sporting organisations. Feedback shows that
were hired to create an online multiple-choice survey and pull together a report their perception of the RFU had improved by 60%, by 50%
based on the feedback provided. The questionnaire developed included questions for World Rugby and by 37% for Rugby Europe. This is a
relating to all of the outcomes and also gave respondents an opportunity to offer positive response and one that the project partners will
more detailed feedback. All responses to the questionnaire were anonymous to look to work on as they undertake development projects in
ensure that the feedback was as honest and constructive as possible. the coming years.

Regeneris sent out the questionnaire to a range of people involved in the Increasing knowledge and capacity
project, covering all aspects of delivery including: project partners, RFU staff, Through the work of the Unity Project the Board hoped to
officials from the national Unions involved, officials from the CBs involved increase the knowledge and capacity of both the CBs and
and those who had delivered the more practical training elements of the nations taking part. This could be anything from sharing
development plans. In total there were 76 respondents with every nation and knowledge on union and club governance and ways of
CB having a least one response to make feedback representative of the project working, through to implementing alternative Laws for
as a whole. Below is an overview of the feedback received on how the Unity the youth game and training groundskeepers. Knowledge
Project performed against each of the outcomes. is a valuable commodity and the aim was to build lasting
relationships and connections through which knowledge
Changing perceptions and building relationships can be shared for years to come.
As stated earlier in the report, the focus when designing the project was to
create solid and lasting relationships as the foundation on which the project In their research Regeneris found that 81% of CBs found
would be delivered. Furthermore, there was a hope that these relationships the Unity Project a valuable learning process which
would last beyond the project to ensure a lasting legacy. resulted in the development of new knowledge.

In the feedback 97% of respondents said that they had formed new relationships
as a result of taking part in the project. Breaking this down further, 75% of
nations and 42% of CBs taking part felt that they had formed a new relationship
with the RFU and it is hoped that all of these relationships will be maintained
and developed further in the future.