One of the biggest challenges any organisation faces is ensuring strong engagement from beneficiary groups, community stakeholders and other groups involved with or affected by that organisation’s work. NGOs in the global South have gotten better at including beneficiaries and communities in their design processes and mobilising them to be Read more…
I was asked this question by a client recently: “why is it always about data?” The organisation has struggled to identify appropriate measures to track its programme performance and impact, it has some systems in place but needs to improve and in exasperation one of the team turned to me Read more…
Disclaimer: I am the Chair of EUConsult – a membership organisation for consultants to nonprofit organisations Some of you will have seen my tweet last year on the publication of a much anticipated report into the UK civil society sector. It is an important report. But it is also a Read more…
Completely agree that aid needs to change and focus on the systemic level to make real change. We also need to avoid putting our own values and assumptions onto the countries and communities we are trying to help – which this article doesn’t quite stretch to…
There has been a lot in the UK news recently about charities, and not much of it good: Age UK selling expensive utility contracts, Kids Company closing after accepting millions in public funding, a new Charities Bill restricting organisations’ lobbying abilities to an already thin-skinned government. And so it continues. Read more…
Recently I was asked by Itad to guest blog on an exciting piece of research that we had done together for PSI MozambiqueFunding PSI Mozambique. It was (obviously) on my favourite subject – core funding! Well head on over there and tell me what you think!
As I mentioned last week, Social Enterprise UK research suggested that the majority of Social Enterprises in the UK find measurement to be a key barrier to fully understanding their impact. While Social Enterprise UK has put forward four steps to integrating social value into any business or organisation, I Read more…
Recently I was in a webinar on Social Value that was looking mostly at practice within the UK and mostly within social enterprises. Social Enterprise UK has done some research that suggests that 55% of social enterprises say that measuring impact is the greatest challenge. In the most recent edition Read more…
Recently a client told me that his business was too small to impact properly and that they would never be able to make the business fully accountable. I was surprised as the ideas that we had been discussing about how he could improve and measure impact were not expensive and Read more…
So I recently did an internet search on the term “Social Impact.” It sure is used by lots of people to cover a multitude of stuff. From donating to your favourite cause via a text message or attending a fundraising event sponsored by a large mainstream brand, to small acts Read more…