# Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative

Defining the impact of the initiative – and the inputs, activities and outputs it needs to deliver to achieve that impact – will help you in designing a roadmap to address the problem you are trying to solve, and illustrate how and why your initiative is expected to bring about the desired change in its given context.

| <p><strong>Activities in this step include:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="play-five-plan-the-activities-of-your-initiative/plan-your-theory-of-change"><strong>Planning an impactful initiative</strong></a></li><li><a href="play-five-plan-the-activities-of-your-initiative/identify-risks-assumptions-and-dependencies"><strong>Identifying the assumptions, external factors and consequences</strong></a></li><li><a href="play-five-plan-the-activities-of-your-initiative/sketch-your-evaluation-framework"><strong>Sketching your evaluation framework</strong></a></li></ul><p> <strong>By the end of this section you might be able to:</strong> </p><ul><li><strong>Define the main activities and inputs needed to build or strengthen data infrastructure</strong></li><li><strong>Design the outputs that will contribute to an impactful initiative</strong> </li><li><strong>Select indicators of success to monitor and communicate the main outcomes of the initiative</strong></li></ul> |
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