An impact report asks a harder question than an annual report does. Not what was delivered, but what changed because of it — and whether the change held.
The first impact report is in preparation. None has been published yet.
When published, these reports will examine programmes against what they set out to do: whether a sponsored child stayed in school, whether a trained learner found work, whether a mother’s circumstances were different a year later. Where the answer is no, the report will say so, because an assessment that only records successes is not an assessment.
They will also carry accounts that figures cannot hold — what a programme looked like in one community and what it meant to the people in it. Where those accounts involve children or families, they are published only with proper consent, under our Child Protection Policy and Safeguarding Policy.
Headline figures are easy to produce and hard to check. These reports are the checkable version, and they are the measure the Foundation would rather be judged on.
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