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May 4, 2021
As institutions committed to social and environmental justice, we share values like equality, participation, respect, empathy, sustainability, and transparency. Yet, these values are rarely embedded within our data collection and data management systems. How do we take the values and commitments that we have as organizations and individuals and track them effectively? Surfacing and tracking organizational values is crucial to align an organization's vision and mission with its everyday implementation. To support this process, data collection and management systems can leverage metrics to make sense and learn from the implementation of our organizational values, support strategic reflection and decision making.
April 5, 2021
Urgent Action Fund - Africa (UAF - Africa) is a feminist, Pan-African rapid response fund supporting and resourcing grassroots feminists and womn human rights' defenders. As a feminist fund, active listening, long-term collaboration and accountability are crucial to their funding approach. Read more to see how they are leveraging ImpactMapper’s survey tool to enhance learning and accountability to support this approach.
March 17, 2021
How can we integrate stories into our on-going M&E processes to support decision-making, programme improvement, and learning? Read the third and final blog post in our series to find answers to some frequently asked questions.
March 11, 2021
Participatory story collection workshops are a powerful way to collect outcomes and learn more about a change process from diverse groups' perspectives. If managed correctly, these workshops can help participants and moderators to share, process, and learn about impact pathways. This honors participants' voices and ways of defining success, builds project ownership and supports an empowering self-reflection process. This method can be used by foundations to track grantees outcomes, non-profit organizations to measure the success of their interventions, by businesses to understand consumer behavior, and impact investors to track company portfolio impacts. Read on for 3 practical tips to hold a participatory data collection workshop on impact stories that can be used for impact management and assessment.
March 4, 2021
Organizations usually have a lot of stories and text data in the form of the reports, but they are not systematically leveraged for impact measurement and reporting. Used properly, stories can help us understand the complex change pathways and impact trajectories through human voices. Read on to see 3 practical tips on how to start using impact story data more effectively.
February 17, 2021
People's voices and stories of change are too often missing from monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, beyond anecdotes or a few quotes. Join our webinar to learn practical insights to leverage storytelling for M&E and Impact Reporting. Alexandra Pittman, PhD (ImpactMapper) will share experiences and tips around how to collect, select, and analyze stories of change in more systematic ways to strengthen impact measurement.
January 14, 2021
Early on in the pandemic, The Fund for Global Human Rights (FGHR) leveraged data to understand the needs of their grantees and to respond adaptively. The data revealed that overnight COVID-19 had turned many of these grassroots activists into frontline first responders. Read more to see how FGHR's data-driven approach and flexible funding model allowed partners to adapt their work to meet shifting needs and reallocate resources and how this evidence helped them design and launch an emergency rapid response fund.
November 4, 2020
ImpactMapper launched the first wave of data on our collective project to strengthen the evidence base of key wins of women’s rights and women’s movement building organizations around the world. We are building the world’s largest database of evidence around women’s rights movements' outcomes, aligning them with the SDGs, and generating useful insights to understand why investing in women's movements is so critical. Have your key wins documented today!
October 30, 2020
ImpactMapper launches fellowship program providing free survey licenses to 10 global changemakers. It is such a privilege to be supporting such inspiring groups creating significant and transformative social changes around the world. Using our survey tool and social impact technology, they can strengthen their impact measurement, collect data more efficiently, across languages and cultures and spend more time focusing on what matters, sharing insights with their communities and promoting deeper social change and impact collectively.