IMPACT AND LEARNING

Creative work should lead to meaningful change.

We work with partners from the outset to decide what the programme is intended to achieve and how we can realistically measure it. Depending on the programme, this may include changes in knowledge, behaviour, confidence, coping skills or community practice.

Monitoring is kept proportionate to the setting and may include observation, short surveys, facilitator feedback, focus groups and participation data.

We use what we learn to strengthen activities, training and future programme design. Where something needs to change, we change it.

Evidence in practice

Handwashing with soap rose from 2% to 53%.

Independent enumerators recorded the change among primary school children following our WASH programme in Nairobi.

Five teachers became more than 7,000.

In the Philippines, an initial disaster preparedness workshop grew into training for more than 7,000 educators across a provincial school system.

95% of caregivers reported improved wellbeing.

In our recent programme with Sudanese refugee children in southern Egypt, caregivers reported clear improvements across multiple areas of their children’s psychosocial wellbeing.