Designing for remote delivery of coaching (Ventures37, Malawi)

Designing for remote delivery of coaching Client: Ventures37 (Land o’ Lakes International) Location: Malawi The challenge An in-person cooperative coaching program faced the Covid-19 challenge of putting in-person contact on hold. Yet, in rural Malawi without reliable internet and low tech literacy, the American reflexive reach for zoom as a solution was not tenable. While…

Developmental Evaluation

Developmental Evaluation: Organizational Change Journey Client: UNICEF Location: Malawi The challenge The country office of UNICEF Malawi, through a human-centered design process, had taken on an organizational change project. Their proposal to become more child-centered in its operation, cutting across silos and increasing coordination posed challenges to existing practices. The office was given a special…

Materials design to deliver postpartum care in low literacy communities

Design for low literacy facilitation Client: Catholic Relief Services Location: Ghana, Kenya The challenge The Integrated Mothers and Babies Course is a fully developed and vetted program for community-based peer postpartum support. In delivering a pilot in rural Ghana, the IMBC team found that due to lower levels of literacy among model mothers the program…

Hope and Homes for Children, Highlighting family preservation case studies

Whole Children, Whole Haiti, case studies highlighting family preservation in Haiti Client: Hope and Homes for Children with Bethany Global Location: Haiti The challenge Picture Impact conducted exploratory research seeking positive case studies of family preservation and family-based care work to lift up in a public-facing publication used for advocacy and mobilization of those working…

CARE Canada, POWER Africa learning brief

Learning Brief for Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment Project (POWER Africa) The challenge With a rich data set across two countries and a specific financial inclusion model CARE Canada wanted to know and share, “How is linkage working for women?”, in time for an international financial inclusion conference. What we did Picture Impact conducted…

CRS, Feed the Future Nigeria

Feed the Future Livelihood Planning Process Client: Catholic Relief Services Location: Nigeria The challenge Households and home visiting volunteers needed to make a customized livelihoods plan for diversifying the household’ income, but with no or low literacy and only a blank notebook this proved daunting. What we did Picture Impact assessed the capacities and needs…

Cafedirect Producers Foundation, East Africa Producer’s Innovation Project evaluation

East Africa Producer’s Innovation Project (EAPIP) Evaluation Client: Cafedirect Producers Foundation Location: Uganda & Kenya The challenge Cafedirect Producers Foundation brought together 13 producer organizations in the region (across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda) to create Centers of Excellence to spread their collective rich expertise throughout membership. With a peer-to-peer learning model, they needed to…