OUR AUDIENCES

Multilateral institutions & international aid organisations

Your work drives profound, systemic change, but your internal processes and evaluation frameworks often struggle to keep pace. Traditional MEL feels extractive, internal teams are siloed, and stakeholder engagement frequently remains superficial. We help you build regenerative evaluation and learning systems that solve these challenges, together.

Who we work with

Who we work with

We support and partner with leaders and teams within multilateral institutions and international aid organisations who are:

  • Deeply committed to fostering long-term, equitable, and sustainable change on a global scale
  • Seeking systemic approaches to impact while managing internal pressures for short-term results
  • Navigating dynamic and interwoven environments across diverse geographies and cultures.

Having worked with the United Nations, International Labour organisation,  Fairtrade International, the German Development Agency  GIZ and others, we have the tools and methods up our sleeves that might speak to you.

Our clients

Key benefits of working with Unity Effect

Credible Impact Evidence & Actionable Strategic Learning

We go beyond conventional MEL. Our regenerative approach delivers the robust, credible evidence of successes and failures you need for donor reporting. Crucially, it also uncovers the underlying patterns and key factors driving those results. This provides actionable insights you can use to learn, adapt, and inform future strategy.

Strengthened Organisational Vitality

We help you support the internal teams and leaders at the heart of your mission. Our approach helps bridge silos and builds the essential capacities for resilience and high-performance teams, enabling your people to navigate global complexity and stay aligned on your core mission.

Enhanced Innovation Capacity to Stay Relevant

In a rapidly changing world, strategy can't be static. We help you design the peer-learning opportunities and reflective structures your teams need for continuous adaptation. This builds your internal capacity to explore new pathways, respond to emerging challenges, and remain effective and agile in the field.

It is fantastic working with an organization that knows us so well and can jump on board smoothly. Unity Effect has added real value from minute 1 to all projects.

Ruth Fernandez Audera

Ruth Fernandez Audera

Flocert

In a unique way that is rarely found, Emily combines competence, professionalism and creativity with enthusiasm, authenticity and fun. Unity Effect does not only talk social entrepreneurship and new work, they know what it means and how to make it work in real life. I enjoy and have benefited from each and every collaboration with Unity Effect and Emily can only highly recommend them as a competent and professional partner.

Matthias Fecht

Matthias Fecht

Head of HR & Facility Management, Forest Stewardship Council

We have been working with the Unity Effect team effortlessly during the Senior Management Team and Global Team retreats. Over the years, they have supported us in bringing together our team, finding better ways to connect, discussing relevant issues, and finding solutions with professionalism and creativity.

Catalina Romero

Catalina Romero

Deputy Managing Director of ASI Assurance Services International

Reach out to us

The best way to explore solutions is to talk. Connect with us to discuss your specific needs and learn how we can tailor our support to your unique context.

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How we support you

We help you move beyond conventional methods, fostering practices that strengthen your evaluation, leadership and innovation capacity.

Regenerative Measurement & Evaluation

We guide you in redefining and measuring impact in complex systems. We use our Impact Garden framework to co-design a Customised Impact and Program Evaluation that is participatory and non-extractive. Alternatively, we can help you tweak your existing frameworks or methodologies by Regenerating your monitoring and evaluation strategy, whilst building your internal learning capacity.

Thriving Teams & Leaders

We support your teams in building the resilience and high-performance needed to navigate complexity and deliver the impact you want. We use our Capacity Compass framework to identify key leverage points and facilitate Tailored Workshop Series or Future Skills Journeys.

Learning & Experience Design

We help you design and facilitate the high-stakes events and peer-learning formats that generate genuine stakeholder buy-in. We support you in designing peer-learning circles and facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder ecosystems .

Partner Stories

Our work is rooted in trusted partnerships and a commitment to real-world impact. We’ve supported a range of multilateral institutions and aid organisations 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:

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Kick-starting the Skills Innovation Network

Between 2020 and 2022, we guided and supported the Skills branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in initiating and establishing their Skills Innovation Network.

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.

FLOCERT

Impact projects

FLOCERT and Unity Effect have been collaborating since 2018. One of their key working areas is impact evaluation.

ASI Assurance Services International

Team retreats and working with the Senior Management Team

We have been working with Assurance Services International since 2021, facilitating team retreats, building internal facilitation capacity, and supporting strategic alignment within their Senior Management Team.

Your next steps

Ready to take the next step? We invite you to explore how a regenerative, life-centred approach can empower your work.

Schedule a consultation

The best way to explore solutions is to talk. Connect with us to discuss your specific needs and learn how we can tailor our support to your unique context.

Schedule a consultation

Explore our core models

Dive deeper into the open-source frameworks that guide our work - The Impact Garden (a living systems approach to evaluating complex initiatives) and the Capacity Compass (a holistic resource for mapping and cultivating inner capacities).

Explore our core models

See our work in action

Read in-depth reports and articles on our work with partners like the International Labour Organisation or FLOCERT.

See our work in action

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Our Resources

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Case Study: Skills Innovation Network launched with the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Together with the Skills Innovation Facility of the International Labour Organization we worked to build a network of innovators around the topic of skills innovation. In this case study we will share our most important learnings for setting up and working with networks in a collaborative way.
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Case Study: Partnership with FLOCERT

It is part of our company philosophy to seek strategic and mutually empowering partnerships that go beyond individual projects. FLOCERT is one example.
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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.