THE CLIENT

Moving On Up is a Collective Impact partnership brought together by Trust For London, City Bridge Trust and the Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG). The partnership brings together over a dozen organisations that are working together to support young Black men into employment in London.

THE CHALLENGE

Collective Impact partnerships are designed to foster collaboration between partners. For Moving On Up to achieve its potential, the partners needed a data platform that would enable them to share referrals with each other, see live progress towards job outcomes and have a sense of what activity is happening across each of the partners in real time.

THE SOLUTION

We worked with each partner to identify their data collection requirements for each stage of their work with young Black men and employers. We spotted the commonalities between the partners and put together a data collection framework that enabled all the partners to record activity, outputs and outcomes for each individual person they engaged.

THE IMPACT

The Moving On Up Collective Impact partnership now has a suite of tools to use to record the entire client journey for each of the beneficiaries served by every partner. This data serves a dual purpose.

• On the one hand it informs the summative evaluation conducted at the end of the programme.

• Yet in the interim, it aids the formative evaluation element whereby the partners can reflect on the data from across the partnership at any time.

This level of openness and transparency enables the collaboration required to make a Collective Impact partnership successful.

We conduct regular learning workshops that give the partners the chance to share their reflections with each other and put forward ideas for how the programme as a whole can improve and better serve its beneficiaries.