Christian development organisations & impact measurement
What impact are Christians development organisations measuring? What would they like to measure?
The Accord Network is an alliance of more than 100 Christian NGOs, representing over $4.4 billion in funding and 110,000 employees. In October 2019, James Waters presented at the Accord Research Alliance (ARA) Conference about the Kingdom Impact Framework Participant Survey, an evaluation tool designed to help Christian organisations assess their spiritual impact. During this workshop, we took the opportunity to asked 56 organisation leaders and monitoring and evaluating experts the question: What are their priorities in impact evaluation?
The full report can be downloaded here
So what?
With this appetite for spiritual impact evaluation, why is there not more occurring? This is an exciting challenge and one that comes with an opportunity: the organisations who are currently measuring the least are actually most likely to use information on spiritual impact to inform their decisions and actions. As organisations re-evaluate programmes in these changing times, it appears organisations have a lot to gain by rigorously assessing how their programmes bring about spiritual change.
