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chapter one
Progress on our impact Simavi sees impact as a lasting change in the lives of women and girls. Ultimately, we want all women and girls to enjoy their human rights to water and sanitation. We contribute to this impact through the programmes and lobby and advocacy that we implement and undertake with our partners. To maximise our impact, we invest in research and continuously explore ways to improve the quality of our programmes. In this chapter, we present two examples of how we do this. After that, we present a case study, external data and data from programmes to illustrate progress against our impact.
A lasting change A lasting change in the life of a woman or a girl is an ambitious goal, but for Simavi it is the only way. We want our work to be holistic and sustainable because we do not believe
in short-term or isolated problem solving. Impact is usually perceived as positive, but we acknowledge that some changes may sometimes be unintended or negative. To ensure we do no harm we take any reports of negative impact seriously, and take a participatory approach to actively mitigating any negative impact. We continually work to improve our impact. How do we do this? • We invest in continual learning about how our programmes can bring about lasting impact. We do this during the programme cycle and through our evaluations. • We make use of a variety of evidence to inform our programmes and our lobby and advocacy work. Where possible, we draw on research to fill evidence gaps. • We aim to ensure that no-one is left behind, and we continue to improve our strategies to reach those in marginalised positions.
One of the schools in Netrokona District participating in the Ritu programma
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Simavi Impact Report 2021
