Evidence Review
Understanding where you are before deciding where to go.
An early-stage clarity process that helps organizations understand what they do, how success is currently defined, and where evidence building is realistically possible.
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What We'll Uncover
During this engagement, we focus on understanding your organization's current impact design - how your work is structured today, how decisions are made, and how learning actually happens in practice.
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We look at the conditions that enable (or limit) your ability to learn, adapt, prove, and improve impact over time - before strategy is formalized or systems are built.
Current Impact Design
How your work is currently structured - programs, services, initiatives, or approaches - and how they are intended to create change today.
Evidence in Use
What information is currently being collected, how it's being used (or not), and where learning realistcally occurs
Learning Conditions
Whether your organization is set up to notice what's working, what's not and why - beyond counting activity or outputs
Readiness Signals
Indicators that show whether the organization is prepared to formalize strategy, define outcomes, and build an Evidence Foundation.
Decision Pathways
How decisions about prgrams, priorities, and resources are actually made - and what information these decisions are based on
Alignment Reality
Where understanding of purpose, success, and priorities is shared - and where it isn't.
What You Leave With
A clear picture of how your work is currently structured
Visibility into gaps, overlaps, and misalignment
Confidence about what to tackle next - and what to pause
Shared language for what success means (and doesn't)
A grounded starting point for evidence building
Why the Evidence Review?
The Evidence Review often serves as the entry point into deeper work, including:
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Evidence Foundation (defining outcomes and learning priorities
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Evidence Infrastructure (aligning systems and workflows)
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Evidence Expression (using evidence for learning, decisions, and storytelling)
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Some organizations pause here with greater clarity.
Others continue when they're ready.
Why Start Here?
You can't decide where to go until you understand where you are.
Most organizations are asked to measure impact, improve performance, or implement systems before they've clearly named what they do, how change happens, or what success actually looks like - not because something is broken - but because something has outgrown its original design.
The Evidence Landscape review creates shared understanding before strategy, tools, or metrics are introduced - reducing confusion, misalignment, and wasted effort later.
