WHO WE ARE

Collaborative Impact is a collective of passionate and like-minded professionals with decades of hands-on experience in assessing complex social change processes, designing institutional strategies and MEL frameworks, and strengthening organisations and partnerships for impact.  

We help develop evidence-based change pathways through a dynamic engagement of our clients and their partners and stakeholders, enabling them to collectively envision alternative futures and devise transformative solutions that work for people and the planet. Levering our deep understanding of social and political-economy drivers of change and broad methodological expertise, our blended approach fosters genuine collaboration, producing robust outcomes that stand the tests of time.

Collaboration is at our core. We believe more can be achieved by working together than in silos, and by transcending existing knowledge disciplines and boundaries.

We gather top-tier teams with experts and facilitators from various fields and parts in the world, dedicated to providing collective services that help our clients to see through their change processes from start to end. We also provide individual services focused on achieving specific outcomes or bridging critical gaps.

Gender and social inclusion are central to our ethos. We are committed to upholding voice, rights, ethics and safety in all we do. Our Code of Conduct serves as a compass.

 

Our Mission

Making the world more sustainable and fairer by taking a systemic, empowering and rigorously innovative approach to strategy, learning and evaluation.


Our Values

Our core values inform everything we do or decide — from our relationships with partners and clients to the methodologies we use, and the way we deliver our services.

Quality. We prioritise delivery of ‘good’ over ‘fast’ and ‘cheap’, but create optimal shared value with available resources by balancing standards of rigour, inclusiveness, and feasibility.

Collaboration. We sit on the same side (not opposite) of the table with our clients and colleagues to design the methods and processes together. Every assignment is a partnership in which we share responsibility and consider our partners’ success as our own.

Empowerment. We consistently seek to enable equal voice and participation to support transformative change for those affected by our work or the work we help to design, strengthen and evaluate.

Trust. More than a service provider, we are a reliable, respectful, empathetic, caring and responsive partner. We speak with one voice and are consistent in everything we say/do in private and in public. 

Openness. We remain open to multiple ideas, realities and ways of knowing, and creatively co-design and combine methods and processes to build credible and VUCA-sensitive knowledge and solutions.

 

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WHAT WE DO

Our Services

Evaluation for Impact. We help our clients and partners to understand and assess their ways towards transformative change and impact in a more systemic and empowering way, inclusive of different voices while also rigorous. We master the entire methodological field and bring in-depth knowledge of process, outcome and impact assessment methodologies in the realist, theory-based, transformative evaluation traditions. Learn about our evaluation projects.

Strategy and Learning for Impact. We help design and adapt strategies and evaluative learning frameworks, and make them future-oriented and investment-ready, geared towards achieving transformative change and impact in complex environments. Learn about our strategy and learning projects.

Innovation Capacity for Impact. We support transformative change far beyond our own reach, by helping our clients and partners to innovate and embed new methods, structures and ways of working into their organisations and the communities they work with. Learn about our innovation capacity projects.

Partnership for Impact. We help to build and strengthen partnerships for impact through the various stages of intentional collaboration: collective visioning and building shared intent, developing a shared Theory of System Change, identifying gaps and needs, understanding the broader ecosystem, designing and building community, assessing collective impact, and learning for improvement. Learn about our partnership strengthening projects.

 

Our Areas

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 OUR TEAM