Keystone Guides

Keystone Accountability's mission is to improve the effectiveness of social purpose organisations by supporting them to develop better ways of planning, measuring, and reporting social change. The following guides are offered in PDF format for organisational use and adaptation.

1. Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (IPAL) Guide – An overview - A 10-page guide to help social purpose organisations to plan, monitor, evaluate, and communicate their work in a way that makes practical sense of the complexity of social change processes and their measurement. 
2. Theory of Change Guide - A 36-page guide to developing a theory of change as a framework for inclusive dialogue, learning, and accountability for social impact: Developing a theory of change; Develop a vision of success; Mapping the preconditions of success; and System mapping 
3. Theory of Change Template - This 16-page interactive template allows organisations to input information directly into it to build their theory of change.
   
4. Learning with Constituents Guide - A 36-page guide to identifying, documenting and analysing evidence of impact (planned or unplanned), and learning from evidence in dialogue with constituents: Whose voices matter? Gathering and documenting evidence of impact – journals of change; Gathering and documenting evidence of impact – formal dialogue processes; and Gathering and documenting evidence of impact – Feedback surveys 
5. Ethical Framework for Feedback Exercises - This 6-page framework provides guidance for conducting feedback in an ethical manner and informs all of Keystone's feedback activities. A summary version is also available.
   
6. Constituency Voice Assessment Framework - This 7-page framework sets out 16 indicators with notes for assessing the strength of Constituency Voice from the public reports of international development non-governmental organisations (NGOs). A generic version of this framework is under development.