REGENERATIVE MEASUREMENT & EVALUATION

Customised impact and program evaluation

Does impact evaluation often feel like a reporting burden, rather than a true compass for your work? We help organisations transform evaluation from an obligation into a powerful practice that clarifies purpose and drives meaningful change.

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Who is it for?

  • NGOs, networks and grassroots initiatives seeking deep learning and authentic storytelling.
  • Multilateral organisations, foundations and investors needing adaptive evaluation approaches.
  • Project and program leaders looking to understand their impact and engage stakeholders.

What’s included?

  • Design of participatory data collection tools and methods.
  • In-depth data analysis, interpretation, and impact storytelling.
  • Capacity building for your team to embed a culture of lasting learning.

Duration

Covers your full cycle: we cover the duration of your project or program, along with essential upfront planning and the post-project evaluation phase.

Expected Outcome

We know that every evaluation need is different. To ensure our support gives more energy than it takes, we offer two distinct pathways for our partnership:

Coaching & strategic guidance: We partner with self-led teams as a thought partner to navigate complex evaluation questions. You will gain access to:

  • Customised tools and methods that reflect your work’s nuance.
  • Adaptable templates suitable across contexts.
  • Increased capacity to apply regenerative principles in evaluation.

Full evaluation design & implementation: We lead the full evaluation process from framework design to data collection, analysis, and reporting while strengthening your team’s capacity. You can expect:

  • A holistic evaluation framework tailored to your context.
  • A full implementation with participatory data collection and analysis.
  • A compelling impact story and shareable final report.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

Working on the Soil: Foundational Topics

Thriving & Growing: Deep-Dive Topics

Effective team communication and meeting culture

Meetings take up a lot of our time and can drain our energy instead of contributing to meaningful collaboration. Together with you, we analyse your current meeting structure and culture to harness the potential of asynchronous and synchronous work.

Giving & receiving feedback

An organism without sensory input is blind to change and adaptation. Constructive and precise feedback is an essential part of team communication. Considering the statement “clear is kind”, we reflect on a variety of feedback situations and processes.

Empowering team decision-making

Clarity on the process of decision-making can boost team collaboration. Collectively we begin to unlearn old patterns of decision-making and create space to set up and practise appropriate new tools and processes.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to explore impact evaluation for your organisation or network

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Our Approach

We design holistic frameworks which help you use measurement and evaluation as opportunities to bring your purpose to life, reveal hidden synergies, and actively engage with the people and stakeholders around you. 

To understand what matters, our holistic approach includes relational aspects (e.g. trust), the inner capacities of individuals, teams and organisations (e.g. resilience), and the complex and dynamic environments we work in. 

More specifically, we can support you with:

  • Developing or adjusting indicators and impact logics with a strong(er) and more consistent focus on the inner dimensions, circularity, regeneration and capacity development.
  • Grounding what you do in science: Drawing on components of systems thinking, qualitative research and psychometric assessment to give your data collection more weight and depth. 
  • Designing and facilitating participatory and inclusive approaches to evaluation.
  • Providing tips, templates and resources to invite all stakeholders into the conversation.
With Unity Effect, we have a partner who understands our approach very well and with whom we can tackle impact measurement and management (IMM) for our project in an agile and adaptive way. The regenerative impact measurement approach in particular fits very well with our vision at SEND e.V. Through close collaboration with Unity Effect and their outstanding support, we can learn a lot ourselves to build our own competence and expertise in the IMM area!

Martha Marik

Martha Marik

Project Manager, SEND e.V.

Working with Unity Effect has been a huge support for us on many levels. Alongside a strong methodological foundation we can build on for years to come, the Unity Effect team has managed to bring cocoa farmers and supply chain actors together, facilitate crucial dialogues around shared and individual actors’ goals, and, as the title of the first year’s report suggests, build trust to create impact.

David Castro

David Castro

Service Coordination Unit Manager at FLOCERT

Building on the benefits of the impact evaluation Unity Effect conducted for the programme in 2022, the organizing team pursued a similar analysis for its 2023 edition. This continuation permitted us to identify common trends and build on key recommendations, whilst also preserving the uniqueness of each edition and participant. The team continues to rely on Unity Effect’s expertise to adapt future editions.

Linda Peterhans 2024

Linda Peterhans

Programme Manager for Youth Leadership, Kofi Annan Foundation

Jannik Kaiser from Unity Effect accepted the invitation to contribute in one of our global working groups with his expertise in impact measurement. He contributed with developing a methodological framework which links farm-level metrics with the SDGs. Not only was he very attentive, constructive and supportive in internal discussions, he also managed to present a highly complex subject in an accessible and concise manner to a global audience of sustainability experts and value chain stakeholders. I am grateful for his inspiring co-leadership as an expert, presenter and (temporary) team member.

Dr. Renè Capote

Dr. Renè Capote

Senior Technical Expert and Co-Facilitator of the Focus Group Environmental Sustainability in Crop Production, GLOBALG.A.P.

Pricing

Based on our core principles to empower collaboration and solidarity we aim at a pricing that feels fair and appropriate for both parties. 

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Day rates apply due to the customised nature of this service.

The exact day rate is determined together with the customer, based on what feels fair and appropriate for both parties. 

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to explore impact evaluation for your organisation or network

Case Study: Evaluating the Kofi Annan Changemakers Initiative

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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.

Measurement as a regenerative practice

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Reconceiving why, how and what we measure can have tremendous leverage. Instead of pressuring ourselves to achieve external goals and meeting reporting deadlines, we could see the process of measurement as an ally on our path to learn, grow and deepen relationships. 
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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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5 min read

Measurement as a regenerative practice

Reconceiving why, how and what we measure can have tremendous leverage. Instead of pressuring ourselves to achieve external goals and meeting reporting deadlines, we could see the process of measurement as an ally on our path to learn, grow and deepen relationships.