Impact Training

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Skill Building Workshops for Impact Tracking

Building Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Systems

LENGTH: 2.5 hours

Our training provides an overview for your staff or partner organizations on how to make your Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work for you. We share tips, best practices, and participatory methodologies on how to track your impact and ensure you are getting data that helps you learn and make decisions. We will also impart the technical know-how in setting up a MEL system that has a gender lens and is diverse and inclusive.

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Skill Building Workshops for Impact Tracking

Building Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Systems

LENGTH: 2.5 hours

Our training provides an overview for your staff or your staff or partner organizations on how to make your Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work for you. We share sharing tips, best practices, and participatory methodologies on how to track your impact and ensure you are getting daat that helps you learn and make decisions. We will also impart the technical know-how in setting up a MEL system that has a gender lens and is diverse and inclusive.

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Our MEL training is highly recommended by previous participants.
Some testimonials include:

We are so excited about this and know this has been very useful for both the NHRF's team and also our grantee partners!
Thank you!!
Sandra Petersen
Executive Director at Norwegian Human Rights Fund
The course was a really great overview of how to make the MEL process work for you, I would highly recommend it to any NGO that has to work with donors!
Madeleine
International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN)
The presentation was very clear, and the exercises summarized complex topics making them accessible. I left with new tools to share with my team and the communities we work with.
Sara Méndez
Codigo DH, - Mexico

Creating a Data Culture

LENGTH: 2.5 HOURS

This workshop supports your organization in creating strategic moments to bring different datastreams into internal conversations. This could involve setting up discussions around grantmaking data, board reports, annual reports, learning briefs, and other activities. The goal is to develop an action plan so that the data you collect is used throughout the year to track trends, help you make better decisions, improve practices and share learnings so you can increase the impact of the changes you are making.

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Creating a Data Culture

LENGTH: 2.5 HOURS

This workshop supports your organization in creating strategic moments to bring different datastreams into internal conversations. This could involve setting up discussions around grantmaking data, board reports, annual reports, learning briefs, and other activities. The goal is to develop an action plan so that the data you collect is used throughout the year to track trends, help you make better decisions, improve practices and share learnings so you can increase the impact of the changes you are making.

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Storytelling Training & Workshops

LENGTH: 2.5 -10 HOURS

Stories are a critical form of communication that move hearts and minds, and they can also be used to track changes and outcomes in our social impact initiatives or grantmaking portfolios.
This in-depth, step-by-step workshop series gives you the methodological and analytical tools to create your own participatory data collection for monitoring or evaluation purposes.

Workshop 1: Using Stories as Datasets Workshop (1.5 hours)
Workshop 2: Collecting Stories and Identifying Outcomes and Strategies that Work (3 hours)
Workshop 3: Deeper Programmatic Learning Tools and Putting Your Analysis Together (2.5 hours)
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Workshop Series to Define your Impact Metrics

LENGTH: 6-8 HOURS

Organizations need more than traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) to track their social impact. In order to ensure that your organization’s impact is meaningful, we lead interactive training sessions to help you define your impact, theory of change, stories of change and key impact metrics along with other KPIs.

This provides your team with the right metrics to measure and communicate your key areas of progress.

Workshop 1: Identifying the Problem, the Goals and Value Add to the Ecosystem (2 hours)
Workshop 2: Identifying Desired Outcomes and Ecosystem Level Changes (2 hours)
Workshop 3: Building your Impact Narrative and Communicating to Diverse Audiences (2 hours)
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Workshop Series to Define your Impact Metrics

LENGTH: 6-8 HOURS

Organizations need more than traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) to track their social impact. In order to ensure that your organization’s impact is meaningful, we lead interactive training sessions to help you define your impact, theory of change, stories of change and key impact metrics along with other KPIs.

This provides your team with the right metrics to measure and communicate your key areas of progress.

Workshop 1: Identifying the Problem, the Goals and Value Add to the Ecosystem (2 hours)
Workshop 2: Identifying Desired Outcomes and Ecosystem Level Changes (2 hours)
Workshop 3: Building your Impact Narrative and Communicating to Diverse Audiences (2 hours)
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ImpactMapper User Refresher Trainings

Refresher Trainings for ImpactMapper Software users

LENGTH: 4.5 HOURS

We support you in optimizing your use of ImpactMapper software. We share practical tips and  tricks for your grant tracking and reporting. This includes sessions on developing taxonomies to standardize outcome measurement and align indicators with your values, how to strengthen your qualitative coding process for monitoring and evaluation, and how to  create surveys and data visualization in the ImpactMapper software

Workshop 1: Tips & Tricks for using ImpactMapper to Track your Grantmaking (1.5 hours)
Workshop 2: Coding Grantee Report Data for Outcomes (1.5 hours)
Workshop 3: Creating Compelling Reports from your Survey and Report Grantee data (1.5 hours)
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Capacity Building Trainings for Partners or Grantees

Impact Reporting Training Program for Grantees

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

This 10-week facilitated training course builds grantees' capacities on data analysis for impact reporting and communication in an interactive and engaging way. At the end of the program, each grantee will have their own impact report to share.  

Who is this for: For grantees that have a dedicated MEL framework, like a theory of change or logframe metrics and data they need to analyze on an annual basis, this training program is for them. Grantees will add their data to ImpactMapper and analyze it for an annual impact report.

Contact us for a full overview of the training program.

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Capacity Building Trainings for Partners or Grantees

Impact Reporting Training Program for Grantees

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

This 10-week facilitated training course builds grantees' capacities on data analysis for impact reporting and communication in an interactive and engaging way. At the end of the program, each grantee will have their own impact report to share.  

Who is this for: For grantees that have a dedicated MEL framework, like a theory of change or logframe metrics and data they need to analyze on an annual basis, this training program is for them. Grantees will add their data to ImpactMapper and analyze it for an annual impact report.
See pdf for a full overview of the training program.

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3-Month Training and Consulting Support for Grantees on Impact Tracking

LENGTH: 3 MONTHS

This in-depth training program gives grantees support in starting to systemize their data collection and their Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) processes.

The focus of each month’s activities is the following:

  • Month 1: Current State of Data and Goals for the Organization and Tracking System Tips for Optimization
  • Month 2: Updating your MEL Framework and Metrics
  • Month 3: Tips for Analyzing Quantitative Data and Qualitative Data Aligned with your Impact
Each month includes:
1.5 hour group workshop with resources
Two 30-minute meetings with the IM team
2 hours of dedicated consulting and feedback from the IM team a month and feedback on the outputs they prepare for that month.
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Other Trainings

Training-Workshops on Gender and Diversity

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

The focus of each month’s activities is the following:

  • Gender, Race and Intersectionality Basics
  • Gender and Power Analysis
  • Stereotypes around representation of gender, race, and identity
  • How do we become more transformative in advocacy?

Forecasting the organization that we want to be in terms of diversity and inclusion

  • Strategizing: How do we get there?

Diversity goals and commitments

  • Individual commitments
  • Organizational commitments and action steps
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Other Training

Training-Workshops on Gender and Diversity

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

The focus of each month’s activities is the following:

  • Gender, Race and Intersectionality Basics
  • Gender and Power Analysis
  • Stereotypes around representation of gender, race, and identity
  • How do we become more transformative in advocacy?

Forecasting the organization that we want to be in terms of diversity and inclusion

  • Strategizing: How do we get there?

Diversity goals and commitments

  • Individual commitments
  • Organizational commitments and action steps
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