Tools and Products
Keystone’s tools for Impact Planning and Learning (IPL) help social purpose organizations to plan, monitor, evaluate and communicate their work in a way that is deeply sensitive to the complexity of social systems and change processes. IPL focuses on the contribution organizations make to achieving sustainable developmental outcomes in complex systems. It fosters accountable learning relationships among key constituents of change processes (funders, implementers and those most affected) in which each learns to contribute optimally to incremental and sustainable impact over time.
Keystone offers these tools to help organizations clarify their theory of change, design outcome-based strategies and indicators of success, systematically collect evidence of success through quantitative metrics and qualitative feedback from constituents, and report meaningfully to constituents and other stakeholders about their learning and impacts.
The field of impact planning and learning is relatively new, and Keystone invites you to use and adapt any part of these tools in a way that works for you. The approach and the tools are constantly evolving and improving as they are being applied in the field, and we welcome any comments, criticisms and suggestions to make them better.
Please send any comments to ipl@keystoneaccountability.org
