Education alliance for life chances
Collective Impact
When organisations work together in a structured way with a common agenda to achieve social change it is called collective impact.
It’s based on the philosophy that large scale social change comes from cross-sector coordination rather than the isolated intervention of individual organisations. There are five conditions to success;
1. Common agenda
A shared vision for change.
2. Shared measurement
Clear success metrics & structured data collection.
3. Mutually reinforcing activities
Stakeholders coordinate their differentiated activities.
4. Continuous communication
Regular meetings to develop approach and share learnings.
5. Backbone support
Central coordination to manage the initiative.
This is our underpinning approach to the way we work through the Education Alliance for Life Chances and also through our place base work known as ‘Act Locally’.
By using this approach we are trying to enable system change for the long term and where local people are empowered to act on issues and priorities, meaningful to their area by enabling better co-ordination of services and support locally. The short term change is the creation of active community and multi agency led Act Locally convening partnerships as a mechanism and a catalyst for change.