The recipe for real social impact is to progress against three dimensions simultaneously – breadth depth, and durability. But the time has come for non-profit leaders and donors to launch deep and sustained efforts to tackle durability: the least discussed, least measured, but arguably most important of these three.
So, what would be the goal for the session in question? Highlighting the following key points:
*How to collect data about individual beneficiary outcomes, long after specific interventions have ended
*Why we need to agree on durability gold standards, like improved long term health outcomes or living wage attainment
*The importance of developing common datasets for these standards so we can benchmark our progress
*How to prioritize durable outcomes – and the resources needed to track them – in funding decisions
