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.

Activities in this step include: Planning an impactful initiative Identifying the assumptions, external factors and consequences Sketching your evaluation framework By the end of this section you might be able to: Define the main activities and inputs needed to build or strengthen data infrastructure Design the outputs that will contribute to an impactful initiative Select indicators of success to monitor and communicate the main outcomes of the initiative