Simple ideas, big impact

news icon25 February, 2008
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 An inspiring article appeared in December in the New Yorker magazine: a doctor in the United S tates introduced step-by-step checklists for procedures in intensive care units and gave the power to nurses to control doctors' performance against the checklists. The results? In some cases, infection rates in ICUs dropped by 66%. The author wonders: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? 

Simple ideas often have the greatest impact. At Keystone we believe that simple interventions for enabling the voice of beneficiaries and other constituents of developmental processes enhance the  performance and impact that  organisations working in the social change field are having. Who better to control and assess the work of these organisations, than those most affected by it? For this, we have developed a series of tools and services that give beneficiaries and other constituents genuine voice within the organisations that act on their behalf and for their benefit.