Projects - Evaluate impact

SAAFE

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies

The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving, so you may find areas that need updating.

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Lukim Gather

Williamsburg, VA

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)

740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

DigiAdGood

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

Digital Good Index

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

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The 2022 Ranking Digital Rights Telco Giants Scorecard

740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005

Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.

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GitLab Foundation Learning for Action Fund

United States of America (the)

The GitLab Foundation launched the Learning for Action Fund in June 2024 to alleviate these problems and increase our grantees’ capacity to deepen their impact measurement, learning, and feedback work.

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Toward Democracy Levels for AI

In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.

E-Participation Index

A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.

E-Government Development Index

The E-Government Development Index presents the state of E-Government Development of the United Nations Member States.

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Fonselp

Buenos Aires

We are a non-profit organization that has created the ideal platform, a SFRM (Sustainability Flow Relationship Manager), to donate, make responsible purchases, measure the impact of your teams, and connect with thousands of organizations that are changing the world.

Civic Information Index

United States of America (the)

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

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Africa Open Parliament Index (OPI)

GE185-7537 BOHYE ROAD (ECOWAS HIGHWAY), NEW ASHONGMAN ESTATE, ACCRA GHANA

The Index will enable civil society to work together with national and regional parliaments to identify systemic challenges to achieving parliamentary openness and to co-create reforms that will strengthen the capacity of parliaments to enhance their openness.

Accountability Research Center (ARC)

Washington, DC

Accountability Research Center bridges research and frontline perspectives to learn from ideas, institutions, and actors that advance strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. Learn more Make a gift to ARC

Pitfalls of Aiming to Empower the Bottom from the Top: The Case of Philippine Participatory Budgeting

Paper by Joy Aceron, 2019. This paper explains why and how a reform program that opened up spaces for participatory budgeting was ultimately unable to result in pro-citizen power shifts that transformed governance.

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GOV.UK Service Standard Reports

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Assessments of government programs provided by the Central Digital and Data Office

United Kingdom (government)

GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI)

Washington, DC

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.

Cali Cómo Vamos

Cali

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.

Datos que hacen ciudad

Cali

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referidos a indicadores de bienestar y gestión pública de la ciudad.

Open Government for Stronger Democracies

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

An OECD global assessment of countries' implementation of its 2017 Recommendation on Open Government

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Relationality Lab

St Louis, MO

We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.

plinth (previously Time to Spare)

London

The only solution that combines an AI grant-writer, a case management system, a CRM, a booking platform and impact reporting — so you can get more funding, keep costs low, and keep all your information in one place.

Overton

London

Track your policy impact

Civic Engagement Scorecard

Washington, DC

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

Oxford Insights

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We make technology work for the public good

Mission Metrics

Oakland, California

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

Impact Tracker

Ohio

The IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.

Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change

United States of America (the)

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

Cheeri IMM

Hong Kong

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.

ReliefWeb Numbers

New York City

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

Suomi.fi Quality Tools

Finland (Suomi)

Finnish government tools to make it easy for government offices to assess and improve upon their digital service delivery

Measuring People Power

How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

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Iguala

Madrid (Spain)

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

Effective Activist: An Evidence-based Guide To Progressive Social Change

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

How can civic tech work effectively with public and private institutions?

A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered

IDinsight

Africa

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

SDG 16 Survey Initiative

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Redefining rigour: using stories to evaluate systems change?

A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther

Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

Kara

Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.

Data for Good Fund

The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.