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DIY Guide to Impact Measurement
I recently wrote a 'DIY guide to Impact Measurement' for the One Planet Lab, an initiative of WWF Switzerland. The One Planet Lab is a think-do tank that provides support for people wanting to create new environmental sustainability projects. They commissioned the...
Co-founding alternative models: Finding an impactful edge in organisational management
It is standard business development practice to say we need more ‘unicorns’ – a privately held start-up company valued at over $1 billion (not to be confused with the mythical unicorn). The energy, money and success (sometimes) associated with these firms is...
Evaluation for a more sustainable future
‘Evaluation’ – what comes to mind when you hear this word? Perhaps ideas like ‘process’ or ‘tedium’ – and probably not ‘ensuring we have a future’. Luckily for all of us, evaluation and impact measurement are taking to the stage to highlight their contribution to a...
Evaluation as an adaptive tool to support effective pivoting in a time of crisis
The current pandemic is posing some incredible logistical and practical challenges for non-profits, small businesses and anyone involved in face-to-face interactions, as customers and clients disappear and projects and businesses pivot rapidly to online working. ...
‘What do you mean, evaluation can be useful?’
Using grant reporting to develop your own project monitoring and management The phrase ‘monitoring and evaluation’ often provokes groans and raises the spectre of complicated forms or time swallowed up answering broad questions in 200 characters or less. In the...