We are excited to be sharing our latest impact report with you! This covers the period from April 2022 to March 2023. While it has been a challenging year in many ways, we remain inspired by the incredible work of our clients and partners and feel honoured to get to walk alongside them on their journey to be more effective and achieve long lasting change in the world.
Why is it important to measure impact? We measure, capture and report on our impact to understand the changes that have resulted from our work and the difference that is being made. We conceive impact as the value created from our activities and actions. Doing this allows us to see the progress we have made so far, celebrate our successes and improve our ways of working to better deliver on our strategy. Our impact report looks at the activities, outputs, outcomes and impact of our interventions. We have defined these terms below:
Through working with our clients and partners we’ve had an impact on a wide-range of issues including justice for refugees and people seeking asylum, global humanitarian response to crises, climate change and biodiversity loss, defending and protecting against environmental crime and abuse, the elimination of violence against women and children, support for women that have survived trafficking and sexual exploitation, alleviating poverty and food insecurity, and more.
In particular, our findings demonstrate that our contribution has enabled our partners to foster greater connection, clarity, confidence, commitment, ability to navigate through change and strengthened organisational culture. The learnings from our impact report have prompted us to continue to consider how we can improve our ways of working and challenge ourselves to think differently, learn differently and act differently.
We also support our partners to develop their own impact frameworks and reports. Rosie is currently in Zambia working with one of our newest partners, i4Life. i4Life is an Irish based non-profit organisation working among the poorest communities in Zambia, particularly in the Linda Compound, a township that is home to approximately 80,000 people. The i4Life team runs nutrition clinics and a primary health care centre for thousands of the residents in the area as well as projects in more remote areas of Zambia. See some pictures below of Ian and Lorna facilitating sessions on governance and leadership with the Board and team in Ireland.
Laura is also a B Leader and runs a B Corp Academy programme, helping small businesses complete the B Corp certification process with ease and confidence. B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Quote of the week: “Success is not measured in the amount of dollars you make, but the amount of lives you impact.” Anonymous
Best wishes
Ian, Rosie, Lorna, Kemal and Iain