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You are the weavers of change, connecting diverse people, organisations, and ideas to tackle our world's most complex challenges. Your work is to cultivate entire ecosystems of collaboration. But how do you prove the value of a connection to a donor who wants hard metrics? How do you measure the health of a network when the most important shifts are invisible? And how do you foster deep trust among diverse members without burning out your core team?
This includes thematic networks, city-based hubs, and global alliances dedicated to building a specific field or addressing a specific challenge. They are often agile and community-driven, sustained by public, private and philanthropic funding, and working to connect diverse actors around a shared purpose.
These are often innovation units, labs, or cross-departmental initiatives embedded within larger organisations like the United Nations or development agencies. They have a mandate to drive innovation from within, often bridging diverse stakeholders and members to foster collaboration on a global scale.
Though your structures may vary, we know you share a common challenge: how to measure the invisible, relational impact of your work and cultivate the deep, trust-based collaboration needed for lasting change. We are your partners in navigating these questions.
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Gain a clear narrative and framework that makes your relational and systemic impact understandable and credible to members, funders, and potential partners.
Move from centralized dependency to a thriving, distributed ecosystem. We help you build a culture of trust and collective responsibility, ensuring your network creates value even when the core team is at capacity.
Develop the insight and confidence to lead your ecosystem toward its shared purpose, even when the path forward is uncertain or non-linear.
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Joyce Lee-Ibarra
Joyce Lee-Ibarra
Founder & Principal, JLI Consulting LLC
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Johannes Greubel
Johannes Greubel
Head of Programme & Connecting Europe Lead, European Policy Centre (EPC)
The best way to explore solutions is to talk. Connect with us to discuss your network's specific challenges and learn how we can tailor our support to your unique context.
We partner with you to strengthen the core functions of your network, from measuring what matters to fostering meaningful collaboration and designing impactful learning experiences.
We partner with you to reimagine your measurement architecture through a regenerative lens. Using our Impact Garden framework, we help you visualize and capture the relational dynamics and emergent value unique to your network. We also equip your members with the skills to measure their own impact through our Trainings and Programs.
We support the people at the heart of your network. Through our Tailored Workshop Series and using our Capacity Compass, we build the capacity of your coordination team to navigate complexity and foster resilient teamwork. This enables them to lead with clarity and hold space for the wider ecosystem without depleting themselves.
We help you turn a loose network into a thriving engine for innovation. We support you in facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder ecosystems—designing the peer-learning formats and high-stakes convenings that spark authentic connection and catalyze collective action.
Our work is rooted in trusted partnerships and a commitment to real-world impact. We’ve supported a range of networks, hubs, and alliances 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:
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In 2022, the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany (SEND e.V.) received a grant from Google.org to “create new standards for an inclusive social enterprise sector in Germany”. Unity Effect’s role is to evaluate the entire project.
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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.
GIZ’s internal Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) engaged Unity Effect in 2022 to enable a participatory and bottom-up approach to organisational learning.
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.
The best way to explore solutions is to talk. Connect with us to discuss your network's specific challenges and learn how we can tailor our support to your unique context.
Get a deeper understanding of the open-source frameworks that guide our work. Discover The Impact Garden to map your ecosystem's health, or explore The Capacity Compass to define the core capacities needed for collaborative leadership.
Dive into detailed examples of our work with networks and ecosystem builders. In the "Further Resources" section below, you’ll find case studies on our partnerships with organisations like the ILO’s Skills Innovation Network or the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany.
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