Digital Library
Welcome to our digital library.
Here you’ll find a list of all the resources we’ve linked throughout the principles, as well as blog posts by our experts, all in one handy place. We’ll continue to add to it as new resources and tools enter our radar.
We know impact measurement can be challenging and confusing to implement in practice, so we hope these help you on your journey to adopt the principles with confidence.
If you have any resources you think would benefit our community, please do share them with us!
Stakeholder Engagement
Organisational Health
Impact Metric Benchmarking
Developing a Theory of Change
(Or Other Measurement Frameworks)
Outcomes Measurement
Stakeholder Engagement: Ecosystem Mapping, SDGs and More
Data Collection and Validation
Data Collection Tools and Systems
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for MEL
Stakeholder Engagement
- Gain immediate feedback from entrepreneurs using the Net Promoter Score
- Learn more about the importance of feedback from Feedback Labs’ resource: Feedback 101
- How strong is your feedback loop? Are you really listening to feedback? Take this quiz by Feedback Labs
- Acumen’s Lean Data Approach
- IRIS+ Impact Measurement & Management System by the GIIN – Use diverse entrepreneurs as ‘role models’ in your storytelling and case studies, as part of your data collection, monitoring, and evaluation.
- IDEO Design Kit: Use this to help you conduct your research, interviews, workshops, and evaluate what it means for your work
- IMP webinar video: Incorporating the Stakeholder’s Voice into Impact Measurement & Management Practice
- World Economic Forum Report: Engaging All Affected Stakeholders
- Social Value: Involving Stakeholders
Organisational Health
- Spring: Template – Financial Sustainability Canvas
- Financial Sustainability: Funding ESO programs
- Financial Sustainability Options for ESOs
- Office Vibe: a tool for tracking wellbeing and team health
- Designing your ESO programs for scale
- VIRAL Framework: Assessing your ESOs Readiness to Scale
- Scaling and Replicating ESO programs: Resourcing Scale
- Scaling and Replicating ESO programs; Sustaining Scale
Impact Metric Benchmarking
Developing a Theory of Change
- Learn about theory of change
- Development, Impact, and You (DIY) – Theory of change template
- Nesta- Theory of Change Template and how-to guide
- Example Theory of Change for Accelerators
- Frontier Incubators: Building a Theory of Change
- NPC: 10 Steps to Building a Theory of Change
- NPC: Understanding Impact & Building a MEL Framework
- NPC: Building Your Measurement Framework: NPC’s 4 Pillar Approach
- Frontier Incubators: Facilitating a Theory of Change Workshop Guide
- Frontier Incubators: Revisiting your Theory of Change
- ISIP: Crash Course on Theory of Change
- Workshop Template: Running a Theory of Change Workshop with your team
Outcomes Measurement
- ANDE: How do we measure social impact?
- Frontier Incubators: Impact Measurement 101
- Good Finance: The Outcomes Matrix
- Defining your Outcomes: IMP’s 5 Dimensions of Impact
- Scaling Frontier Innovation: an overview of the Dimensions of Impact in relation to ESOs
- IMP: Defining Outcomes & Indicators
- GALI: Measuring the Value for Money of Acceleration
- Example Accelerator Metrics – calculating ‘Value for Money’
- Using Mixed Methods: NPC – Qualitative Data Collection Methods
- SSIR: A Playbook for Designing Social Impact Measurement
- J-PAL: A Practical Guide to Measuring Measuring Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
- More than Measurement: A Practitioners Journey to Impact Management
- For ESOs working with agriculture enterprises: Smallholder Performance Measurement: Common Indicators and Metrics
- ANDE: Measuring Value Created by Impact Incubators & Accelerators
- The World Bank: Handbook on Impact Evaluation
- Design Kit: Define Your Indicators
Stakeholder Engagement: Ecosystem Mapping, SDGs and More
- Coursera: Impact Measurement for the SDGs (free online course)
- IMP: Defining ‘What is an Enterprises’ Contribution to the SDGs?’
- Frontier Incubators: How to Engage Stakeholders in your Ecosystem
- Frontier Incubators: Ecosystem Mapping
- Spring: Template for Mapping your Ecosystem
- ANDE: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Diagnostic Toolkit
- A Systematic Framework for Measuring Employment Impacts
Data Collection and Validation
- IMP Report: Using Self-Reporting Data for Impact Measurement
- IMP Report: How do we know if impact has occurred? Understanding and Using Evidence of Impact
- NPC: Methods for Regular Quantitative Data Collection (building data collection into your program delivery & daily practices)
- NPC: Evidence Standards for Impact Measurement
- NPC: Analysing and Using Data
- NPC: Using MEL to Develop a Learning Culture
- IDEO Design Kit: Use this to help you conduct your research, interviews, workshops, and evaluate what it means for your work (this site has lots of other resources too!)
Data Collection Tools and Systems
Resources:
Free data collection tools:
- Kobo Toolbox
- Google Forms
- Social Value UK: Blank Value Map
Paid MEL systems, CMS systems, and Impact Communication tools:
- B Analytics
- Geckoboard
- Social Suite
- Impactasaurus
- Power BI
- MS Forms (through Office 365 subscription)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for MEL
- GLIA Toolkit – Gender Lens Incubation & Acceleration Toolkit
- MORE THAN NUMBERS – A Guide Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Data Collection
- The Washington Group Questions – Disability Data Collection Tool
- A summary review of the use of the Washington Group Questions
- Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD)
- Frontier Incubators: Recruiting a Diverse Cohort of Entrepreneurs
- Gender Dynamics in collecting data over the phone: Spouse and Gender Relations: Phone Surveys Protocol
THE PRINCIPLES
A set of living, open source Guiding Principles for ESO Impact Measurement, led by a Community of Practice, and developed with input from key stakeholders.
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