6. bouchra chakroune impact & partnerships
TRANSCRIPT
Key Lessons from Day 1
Demand side approaches
• Need to rebalance the emphasis between
supply and demand – greater focus on the
user demand side.
• Joining forces - developing effective and
purposeful multi-stakeholder partnerships
are key to impact.
• Developing shared value propositions/ and
a common understanding
Politics
• Drivers of change – deeper understanding
the political economy of the environments
we work in – incentives, disincentives,
power plays
• Engaging policy-makers and government
officials at all levels
Windows of opportunity
• Change comes not only from government
but also civil society and social
movements
• Finding champions of change and working
with “connectors” .
• Being alert to windows of opportunity and
adopting a flexible and responsive
approach
Communication
• Communication and adopting different
ways of dissemination
• Keeping it simple - reporting results in a
way that is accessible, understandable
and useable
• We are not rational actors – we need to
engage hearts and minds
Assessing Impact
• Impact takes a long time – tracking impact
beyond the time frame of the project
• Re-thinking our metrics for measuring
change
• Lesson learning – we can learn from
‘failures’
Developing impact pathways
workshop
Group work
• Break up into your respective projects and
appoint a rapporteur who will report back
in the plenary.
• Non- ESPA grantees please join project
groups.
• In this session we would like each group to
discuss their impact strategies and impact
pathways, addressing the questions in the
guidance note provided.
Impact Pathways
• Revisit project objectives and impact
statement – highlighting what the project
seeks to ultimately achieve and how this
leads to a change in the lives of poor
people
• Review project inputs, activities, outputs
and outcomes designed to enhance the
impact of your project. Identifying gaps
and opportunities.
Stakeholder analysis
• Using the guidance note as an aid, while
doing this exercise think about the key
stakeholders the project will be seeking to
partner with to enhance research uptake,
use or impact.
• Assessing the individuals or organisations
in terms of their degree of influence,
alignment, and readiness to engage. To
identify those best placed for impact.