Providing the tools and expertise needed to guide better social outcomes.
We have some very exciting news to share – Navigating Outcomes will be joining the world-class monitoring and evaluation consultancy Clear Horizon. It’s our chance to reach a broader audience and help bring Australian social impact measurement into the digital era. Read More
Shared measurement is a core part of collective impact (CI), a form of place-based approach to collaborative, community-directed efforts to bring about social change.
In a nutshell, shared measurement is the “use of a common set of measures to monitor performance, track progress towards outcomes, and learn what is and is not working in the group’s collective approach” (John Kania, FSG).
But where and how does Evaluation fit into this framework? Read More
While there’s still a detailed write up to come exploring our shared outcomes journey with Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery, in the meantime we wanted to share our joint presentation from last month’s Australia and New Zealand Addiction Conference.
In it, we cover how we broke down the somewhat daunting task of implementing an organisation-wide Outcomes Measurement Framework, as well as key lessons when it comes to the support and resources needed to make Outcomes Measurement a streamlined and welcome part of everyday work. Read More
Last month I had the privilege of sharing learnings with two leading community agencies working in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector in Southeast Melbourne.
While it was a highly informative evening, in some ways it raised more questions than it answered, especially when it came to responsibility for working across the sector and developing shared outcomes measurement frameworks. Read More
Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been part of a Collaboration for Impact peer learning experience, engaging 16 different collaborations to share their experience of shared measurement.
This is the captain’s log from my experience as facilitator and shared measurement navigator. Read More
When it comes to measuring collaborative and collective impact, we’re often asked: how can we make it easier for organisations to learn from each other, save money on evaluation costs, and build an evidence base of what works? While strictly speaking, this can’t be achieved with the wave of a magic wand, we’ve found that a shared approach to measurement – where organisations apply the same indicator or set of indicators of change to a common area of work – can deliver some pretty magical results. Read More
It’s hard to imagine, but we are already beginning to think about budgets and plans for FY2018/19.
For those of us in the social impact space, that means we need to get real about getting our organisations ready to demonstrate outcomes, and consider the resources needed to support this.
Interested in working in Social Impact Measurement? We asked six practitioners to share their experiences on how they ended up working in the space, and why. And don’t forget to join us at the SIMNA VIC committee and APSIC panel event next week! Read More
I have heard “Developmental Evaluation” (DE) described many, many different ways since Michael Quinn Patton coined the term in his 2010 book of the same name.
According to some of these descriptions: it’s a way to record our journey so far; it’s about “developmental moments”; it’s rapid feedback; it’s action learning re-packaged; and/or it’s the same as formative evaluation, linked to innovative and complexity which can be used to achieve scale and so on.
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The other day someone told me that they didn’t want to be taken away from the ‘real work’ to collect data for outcomes measurement.
As someone who has dedicated their career to measurement and evaluation I had to take a deep breath. As someone who has seen the real difference made by outcomes measurement to program impact, I had to take another breath… Read More