How do you evaluate your partnership's impact?

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Evaluating your partnership's impact is crucial to understand how well you are achieving your shared goals, learning from your experience, and improving your collaboration. However, measuring impact can be challenging, especially when you are working across different sectors, geographies, and cultures. In this article, we will share some tips and tools to help you evaluate your partnership's impact in a meaningful and credible way.

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Define your impact framework:

Establish a shared vision and clear indicators. This creates a roadmap for how your activities lead to tangible outcomes, ensuring all partners are aligned.### *Embrace qualitative stories:Complement hard data with narratives to capture human experiences. This approach paints a richer picture of your partnership's real-world impact, beyond just the numbers.

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1 Define your impact framework

Before you start collecting data, you need to have a clear and shared vision of what impact means for your partnership. This involves defining your partnership's theory of change, which explains how your activities and outputs lead to outcomes and impact for your target group and the wider society. You also need to identify your impact indicators, which are specific and measurable ways of tracking your progress and results. Your impact framework should be aligned with your partnership's objectives, values, and resources, and reflect the perspectives and needs of your stakeholders.

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Elba Pareja-Gallagher

Sustainability consultant & Keynote speaker & trainer | Gender equity & Allyship expert | ShowMe50% women leading 501 (c)(3) | UPS (Retired). I ??getting into good trouble!
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The foundational point of success for evaluating your initiative or organizational impact is to pinpont your stakeholders and what matters to them. You can't define an impact framework with truly understanding your stakeholders. An often missed point is to listen to your critics. Just like in setting up a sustainability strategy, it's only the positive impacts but the negative impacts that matter too. So be aware of what critics are saying to create the best impact framework and metrics to evaluate your success

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Bill Williams

Experienced across the spectrum of every stakeholder role in infinitely sustainable and prosperity-generating business models for all stakeholders.
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Your post demonstrates more wisdom than most can imagine. I know because I’ve experienced it. Simon Sinek would see your framing as preparation for an infinite establishment. Cheers

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Anna Hava

Commercial Manager, Data Analytics & AI @ Telia | Driving Growth with Data
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Engaging in collaborative dialogues with fellow stakeholders, can help shape a more comprehensive understanding of success. By reflecting on the partnership's evolving goals and sharing insights into the challenges and opportunities encountered, we can contribute to refining the impact framework. This collaborative approach ensures that the evaluation process is not only meaningful but also incorporates a holistic view of the partnership's journey and outcomes.

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2 Choose your impact methods

Once you have your impact framework, you need to decide how you will collect, analyze, and report your data. There are many methods and tools available for impact evaluation, ranging from quantitative surveys and experiments to qualitative interviews and stories. The best method for your partnership depends on several factors, such as your impact questions, data sources, budget, time, and skills. You should also consider the ethical and cultural implications of your methods, and ensure that they are appropriate and respectful for your context and participants.

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3 Involve your partners and stakeholders

Evaluating your partnership's impact is not a one-way process, but a collaborative and participatory one. You should involve your partners and stakeholders throughout the evaluation cycle, from designing your impact framework and methods to collecting and interpreting your data and sharing your findings. By engaging your partners and stakeholders, you can enhance the relevance, validity, and ownership of your evaluation, and foster mutual learning and accountability. You can also use your evaluation as an opportunity to strengthen your relationship and communication with your partners and stakeholders, and to identify areas for improvement and innovation.

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4 Communicate your impact story

The final step in evaluating your partnership's impact is to communicate your impact story to your intended audiences, such as your funders, beneficiaries, peers, and policymakers. Your impact story should highlight your partnership's achievements, challenges, and learnings, and demonstrate how you have made a difference for your target group and the wider society. You should use clear and compelling language, visuals, and narratives to convey your impact story, and tailor it to the needs and interests of your audiences. You should also be transparent and honest about your limitations and assumptions, and acknowledge the contributions and feedback of your partners and stakeholders.

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Ingmar Rentzhog

Official Eco-warrior according to The Sun, Mark ZuckerVert according to France TV2.
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In a data-driven era, we often default to measuring success through quantitative metrics. Yet, not all impacts can be condensed into numbers. Solely relying on them risks oversimplifying complex outcomes, leading to "suboptimization." While we can numerically assess outputs like houses built or roads paved, how do we quantify intangible effects like community spirit or hope? Here lies the power of qualitative stories. Narratives capture human experiences numbers miss. Imagine complementing hard data with a "public logbook" of stories detailing project impacts. Both metrics and stories are essential, painting a fuller, richer picture of real-world impact.

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5 Use your impact evaluation for learning and improvement

Evaluating your partnership's impact is not a one-off exercise, but a continuous and iterative process. You should use your impact evaluation as a source of learning and improvement for your partnership, and not just as a way of reporting and proving your impact. You should reflect on your evaluation findings, and use them to inform your decision-making, planning, and action. You should also share your learnings and best practices with your partners and stakeholders, and seek their input and suggestions for enhancing your partnership's impact. By doing so, you can foster a culture of learning and improvement within your partnership, and increase your potential for social impact.

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Anna Hava

Commercial Manager, Data Analytics & AI @ Telia | Driving Growth with Data
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Leader's unique insights and experiences within the partnership can offer valuable context to the evaluation findings. By actively participating in the reflection process, you not only contribute to informed decision-making but also help identify areas where adjustments may be necessary. Sharing these insights with partners and stakeholders facilitates collective learning and strengthens the partnership's adaptability. Ultimately, leaders' involvement ensures that the partnership remains dynamic and responsive, maximizing its potential for driving positive social impact through continuous improvement.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Fiona Pelham

CEO of a not for profit creating a sustainable events industry, Chair of ISO 20121, Honorary doctorate from Leeds Beckett, Member of UN expert advisory committees. Changemaker, Storyteller and Global Entrepreneur
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Partnerships are often an opportunity to take risks and do something differently. An agile, innovative small company taking action in partnership with a global corporate brand is a partnership likely to deliver more examples of learning (eg failures!) than two global corporate brands partnering. An SMEs ability to take risks and innovate can make them a valuable partner for bigger businesses.

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1 Define your impact framework

2 Choose your impact methods

3 Involve your partners and stakeholders

4 Communicate your impact story

5 Use your impact evaluation for learning and improvement

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