Get simple, clear guidance and support to ‘Kick Start’ your journey to greater impact
Speak to an expert and figure out where and how to get started with your biggest Impact Measurement, Management and Planning challenges in the most time and cost-efficient way.
Speak to an expert and figure out where and how to get started with your biggest Impact Assessment & Planning challenges in the most time and cost-efficient way.
What is an Impact CoPilot?
An Impact CoPilot is an experienced Impact Assessment and Planning professional from the inFocus Team who has been matched to your field of work and your expressed needs. A project that we CoPilot could address any of our consultancy themes.
We recognise that for some organisations all that is required to succeed is some well targeted advice to help you move in the right direction, along with timely access to the right training, guidance and tools.
So, if you or your organisation is looking for a low-cost, flexible and time efficient solution to address your Impact Assessment and Planning challenges, our Impact CoPilot service has been created with you in mind!
What our clients say about our Impact CoPilot service:
How does it work?
It all starts with an initial Discovery Session where we’ll discuss your Impact Assessment and Planning challenges and goals. This is a free, no commitment session to see if and how we might help!
After the session we will send you a personalised Co-Workplan to help you to achieve your goal.
What is a Co-Workplan?
A Co-Workplan is a clear and simple plan for us to follow to achieve your most urgent objectives and (most importantly) is in line with your available time and resources to implement.
Within the Workplan we will outline our understanding of your needs, along with some suggested areas of targeted support to be provided by your CoPilot. We’ll also provide a brief bio and CV for the CoPilot we recommend for your project, outlining their relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
If you are happy with the plan, we can get started, or make some further tweaks to better fit your needs!
In what areas can a CoPilot help?
This depends upon the nature of your Impact Assessment and Planning journey ahead, your current in-house strengths and weaknesses and where you think further highly targeted information, advice and guidance might be useful. Our Impact CoPilot’s are also great at validating and quality assuring Impact Assessment and Planning outputs that you have developed to improve their quality and utility, as well as performing a range of short term Technical Assistance Tasks on your behalf (for example, analysing data, facilitating a planning workshop or creating a dashboard style report).
Here are the TOP 5 requests we receive:
- How can I get started with Impact Measurement in my organisation, and/or evaluating our work, with very limited time and money? I know we need to do it, but it seems quite overwhelming. Where should we start?
- Can you help me to develop (or review) my indicator measurement framework and/ or our data collection instruments? We’ve drafted them but we're not sure how good they actually are!
- We’ve collected a lot of data internally, but really need some help to analyse it and make sense of it. Can you help us get started?
- We want to present the findings and results of our work to our donors in a more impactful and punchy way. Can you help us put together a powerful Impact Report?
- Can you help us to develop a more strategic and sustainable plan for the future? [of either our organisation or a particular programme / project]
These are just some examples, but hopefully they give you an idea of what we offer.
Are you a funder looking for a similar solution to be able to offer to your grantees? Or are you a Network membership or international NGO looking for a similar solution for your members/partners?
Our CoPilot Helpdesk service was designed for you….
What is a CoPilot Helpdesk?
For many frontline, delivery-oriented organisations, implementing good quality MEL activities can be a daunting and seemingly impossible task. Unfortunately, providing in-house MEL assistance can be exceedingly difficult for funders, networks and iNGO’s who don’t usually have the budget or bandwidth to provide for this need with all their other responsibilities.
But when the data you need back centrally is largely dependent upon ‘decentralised’ MEL activities carried out by other organisations, receiving good quality data back is essential to report upon the ‘bigger picture’ impact you are having.
A CoPilot Helpdesk is an effective way to ensure you receive back the information you really need by providing easy access to your grantees, member organisations or partners to timely and highly targeted CoPilot support they need to produce good quality data and reports.
Book in for a Discovery Session to learn more about how this works, what it costs and long term benefits it will bring!
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Meet our CoPilots
Every client we work with is paired with a Senior Evaluation and Learning Specialist who has been trained in providing CoPilot targeted support in the most cost-efficient and timely fashion possible. And we’re always continuing to innovate in how we go about doing this, to save you time and money!
Every Impact CoPilot has years of experience and be selected according to your field of work and matched to your support needs.
The great thing is, that we can also pull in different CoPilot’s to help you at different times, so you can leverage the combined expertise and knowledge of our whole senior specialist team, if required.
How much does it cost?
Our Impact CoPilot service is a ‘light touch’ approach to what can traditionally be a costly and time-consuming area of work! If you are an organisation (or a funder/network/iNGO who works with multiple partner organisations) who are keen to co-design, co-develop and co-implement a MEL solution tailored to your needs, then working with an Impact CoPilot is likely going to be the most cost-effective and time-efficient way to strengthen your MEL capacities and get powerful results from your data.
Your Co-Workplan will break down the areas of support we propose ‘by the hour’, to ensure the time spent on your project is optimised, and targeted to only the tasks you need some expert help to do.
If you are a funder, network or international NGO with more complex decentralised MEL support requirements, we will talk you through the best options to achieve your objectives, that might include sharing the costs with your partners to reduce the central burden.
Book a free discovery session
- 30 min
- Web conferencing details provided upon confirmation.
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