OUR AUDIENCES

Education & Capacity Building Experts

You are dedicated to equipping people with the future skills needed to navigate a complex world. But how do you measure the growth of capacities like resilience, collaboration, or inner clarity? We help you design learning journeys that truly resonate and provide the rigor to prove their impact.

Who we work with

Who we work with

We partner with education and capacity-building experts at key moments of program design and evaluation.

Our typical partners include:

  • Professional training providers seeking to credibly measure the development of future skills and leadership capacities.
  • Capacity-building units within foundations, development agencies, and NGOs who need to evaluate the effectiveness of their learning initiatives.
  • Universities and academic institutions aiming to integrate real-world impact measurement into their research and teaching. 

Whether you are launching a new curriculum, seeking to revitalize an existing program, or needing to prove the value of "soft skills" to a skeptic funder, we partner with you to build the evidence base you need.

Our clients

Key benefits of working with Unity Effect

Make the intangible visible

We provide the research-backed frameworks, like our Capacity Compass, to help you measure what is often considered immeasurable: the deep, human-centered growth your programs cultivate.

Design for depth

Use evaluation as a strategic design tool. We help you clarify your Theory of Change and refine your curriculum and program design to ensure you are building the specific future skills your participants need.

A compelling impact story

Move beyond simple satisfaction scores. We help you weave qualitative insights and behavioral shifts into a clear, rigorous narrative that proves the long-term value of your work to funders and partners.

Working with Unity Effect's Capacity Compass helped us identify the capacities and capabilities we truly wanted to measure for the Bopa DiPeo fellowship. Jannik supported us in creating customized assessments for each fellow and the fellowship as a whole. He has an incredible way of making complex content clear and accessible and linking theory with practice.

Elsa Henderson Capacity Compass

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Reach out to us

Connect with us to discuss your program's specific evaluation challenges and how our expertise can support you.

Schedule a Consultation

How we support you

Regenerative Measurement and Evaluation

We partner with you to design evaluation frameworks that make the invisible shifts in capacity and mindset visible. Through our Customised Impact and Program Evaluation, we apply the Capacity Compass to track the development of future skills with rigor and nuance.

Thriving Teams and Leaders

We support your internal teams of educators and facilitators to build their own collaborative capacities. Through our Future Skills Journey and Regenerative Teamwork Catalyst, we use the Capacity Compass to map and strengthen the specific inner capacities your team needs to deliver transformative programs.

Learning Experience Design

As fellow learning designers, we act as your sparring partner. We use the Impact Garden framework to refine your Theory of Change and program design, ensuring you create immersive learning journeys that lead to embodied, measurable change.

Partner Stories

Our work is rooted in trusted partnerships and a commitment to real-world impact. We’ve supported a range of education and capacity building experts in transforming their approach to evaluation, fostering resilient teams, and designing impactful learning experiences. Here are a few examples of how we’ve partnered up and supported:

Kofi Annan Foundation

Design and facilitation of online and in-person modules for the Kofi Annan Changemakers Initiative

Since 2022, Unity Effect has worked with the foundation to design, facilitate and evaluate their Changemakers Initiative: a year-long program that brings together 12 selected young changemakers.

German Development Cooperation (GIZ)

GIZ’s Academy for International Cooperation: Scaling peer learning within a global organisation

GIZ’s internal Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) engaged Unity Effect in 2022 to enable a participatory and bottom-up approach to organisational learning.

Joachim Herz Foundation

Future Skills Journey

In collaboration with the Joachim Herz Foundation, we designed and implemented the Future Skills Journey: an impact-oriented training format for alumni of the Joachim Herz Foundation's Azubi-Kolleg and Azubi USA programs.

Your next steps

Ready to take the next step? Here are a few ways we can begin to explore how a regenerative, life-centred approach can empower your work.

Schedule a Consultation

Connect with us to discuss your program's specific evaluation challenges and how our expertise can support you.

Schedule a Consultation

Explore our Capacity Compass

Dive deep into the Capacity Compass, our research-backed model for identifying and measuring the human-centered change your programs cultivate.

Explore our Capacity Compass

See Our Work in Action

In the "Further Resources" section below, you can explore our in-depth case study on evaluating the Kofi Annan Changemakers Initiative and read our Regenerative Evaluation Living Paper.

See Our Work in Action

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Our Resources

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Case Study: Evaluating the Kofi Annan Changemakers Initiative

Unity Effect has been working with the Kofi Annan Foundation since June 2022, both to design and facilitate online and in-person sessions for the Changemakers Initiative, and to evaluate the impact of the programme. This case study focuses on the impact evaluation and outlines how we designed and implemented an evaluation framework, based on our approach to Regenerative Impact Evaluation.
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Future Skills Journey: A practice ground for self-agency and connection - for us and our future

“I am more aware of what I am capable of.” Reading this comment from a participant makes my heart swell with joy after completing our 5-week Future Skills Journey with the Joachim Herz Foundation and 20 young adults. We're excited to share the results, experiences, and impact evaluation from this transformative program.
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Introducing the Capacity Compass: A practical framework for capacity development

The Capacity Compass is built on a simple yet powerful idea: thriving individuals, teams, and systems are built upon a set of foundational human capacities. Drawing on foundational work in systems thinking, complexity science, psychology, and insights from contemplative and indigenous knowledge traditions, the Compass identifies 28 core capacities across individual and collective levels. It provides a shared language for the essential human and relational qualities needed for regenerative impact.