REGENERATIVE MEASUREMENT & EVALUATION

Impact Garden Implementation

Monitoring and Evaluation often begins as an important tool for accountability, but it can be so much more. To help you turn monitoring and evaluation into a valuable resource that drives your entire strategy, we offer tailored support packages to implement the Impact Garden framework. Together, we build human-centric systems that restore energy, honor complexity, and capture the true systemic vitality of your work.

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Who is it for?

Purpose-driven teams, NGOs, and foundations seeking to weave their monitoring, evaluation, strategy, and ecosystem building together using a single, living framework. 

What’s included?

Tailored strategic coaching, access to templates and resources, co-design of context-specific metrics, and dedicated implementation support. 

Duration

Flexible, based on the package selected. Engagements range from a single diagnostic session to multi-month systemic integrations. Selected packages can be upgraded once started to include additional features and support if needed.

Expected Outcome

With our support, you can apply a living systems perspective to integrate your strategy, design, and evaluation practices. Across our partnership, you’ll have the chance to:

  • Make the invisible visible: gain the field-tested tools and shared language needed to track and communicate the relational foundations of change (such as trust, agency, and capacity development) right alongside established metrics.
  • Bridge measurement and strategic action: evolve current reporting cycles into dynamic, ongoing sense-making that restores team energy and honours complexity.
  • Strengthen your organisational core: implement a holistic framework that actively aligns your strategy, project design, and network collaboration with your purpose and values.
  • Close the coherence gap: translate complex ecosystem data into actionable, evidence-backed strategic advice for internal leadership and credible evidence for external stakeholders.

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.

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Get to know the Impact Garden, a living systems framework designed to cultivate and measure true, regenerative impact in your work.

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Our Approach

We believe that evaluation must be relational, regenerative, and life-centered. While traditional metrics provide a vital baseline for accountability, we help you expand upon them to capture the "invisible" foundations of systemic change—like trust, agency, relationship building, and inner capacities.

The true strength of the Impact Garden is that it bridges the gap between measurement and action. While we often lead with evaluation to solve immediate learning and reporting needs, the framework serves as a versatile, regenerative operating system with four core applications:

  • Regenerative Measurement & Evaluation: Expanding upon traditional frameworks to capture both direct outcomes and deeper, systemic shifts.
  • Organisational Development & Strategy: Helping teams and leadership make sense of their shared purpose, internal structures, and long-term direction.
  • Project & Product Design: Cultivating new initiatives from the "soil" up, ensuring they are rooted in the right supportive conditions from day one.
  • Network & Ecosystem Building: Fostering mutual understanding, collaboration, and shared meaning across diverse stakeholders and partners.
We had the privilege of working with Jannik to implement Unity Effect's Capacity Compass and Impact Garden in the Bopa DiPeo fellowship. He helped us identify relevant items and clarify what capacities and capabilities we wanted to focus on and measure. As a model, the Capacity Compass provided enough structure and rigour while also adapting to fit our context and the diversity of each fellow's experience. We look forward to continued work with Unity Effect in the coming years!

Elsa Henderson Impact Garden and Capacity Compass

Elsa Henderson

Co-Founder, Circle Generation

Past Projects

ChangemakerXchange

Changemakers for Democracy: Measuring impact for systemic change

In collaboration with ChangemakerXchange, we supported the impact evaluation of their Changemakers for Democracy program — an initiative dedicated to reimagining democracy and fostering economic renewal across Europe.

Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany

Impact evaluation of Google.org grant for inclusive entrepreneurship

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.

Curious to see more of our work?

Check out our portfolio to see all past projects.

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Pricing

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

Strategic Soundboarding
600
EUR
714
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

A highly focused diagnostic mapping session and collaborative coaching space to explore your current evaluation landscape, untangle systemic blocks, and define immediate next steps.

Perfect for teams and leaders needing rapid clarity or a fresh, living systems perspective on their strategic direction. 

Guided Application
2,500
EUR
2,975
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

Process coaching and strategic support alongside your team as you implement the Impact Garden on a specific project or program.

Perfect for teams who want expert guidance while they lead the implementation.

Co-Implementation
6,000
EUR
7,140
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

A deeper, hands-on partnership. We actively co-design your frameworks, review your metrics, and support the facilitation and implementation process.

Perfect for organisations seeking our hands-on expertise.

Systemic Integration
25,000
EUR
29,750
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

We embed the Impact Garden as a core operating system across your organisation, linking it to your data management, team culture, and strategic decision-making.

Perfect for leadership teams ready for whole-organisation development.

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Explore the Impact Garden

Get to know the Impact Garden, a living systems framework designed to cultivate and measure true, regenerative impact in your work.

Explore the Impact Garden

Case Study: Envisioning an inclusive social entrepreneurship sector - Impact Evaluation with SEND e.V. and google.org

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At Unity Effect, we were honoured to co-develop and implement the impact evaluation of "Envisioning an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Germany", a flagship initiative led by SEND e.V. and supported by Google.org’s Social Innovation Fund. Using our Impact Garden methodology, we explored how inclusive funding structures, trust-based support, and systemic collaboration can empower founders from underserved communities.
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Case Study: Envisioning an inclusive social entrepreneurship sector - Impact Evaluation with SEND e.V. and google.org

At Unity Effect, we were honoured to co-develop and implement the impact evaluation of "Envisioning an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Germany", a flagship initiative led by SEND e.V. and supported by Google.org’s Social Innovation Fund. Using our Impact Garden methodology, we explored how inclusive funding structures, trust-based support, and systemic collaboration can empower founders from underserved communities.