I recently conducted an evaluation of 3 Pillars Project pilot in Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute, working with young men aged 16-18 to help them make positive change in their lives through sport, mentoring and role modelling. Read the report here.
Challenges in Evaluating Systemic Change
Advocating for Understanding and Investment into Systemic Change
Recent years have seen the concept of systemic change as a means of creating greater social impact becoming more mainstream, joining social entrepreneurship and impact investment in the cache of the sector. It has seen advocacy from a range of major players within the social sector, not least Ashoka, arguably the longest-standing supporter of investing in changing systems over simply funding programmes to plug gaps, however there remains a long way to go in shifting more funding, support and acknowledgement towards the preventative end of the spectrum.
The Informal Economy: Critical To The Hopes Of A Continent
Gender equality and female entrepreneurship
Gender equality and female entrepreneurship
I am very passionate about gender equality, whether it is girls getting access to the same education as boys or women having the same opportunities and respect as men in the boardroom. It is a topic that really matters and as a result is one of the subjects which you’ll find me getting into a heated debate about!
I am very fortunate never to have had my gender (knowingly) held against me. My parents ensured I had all the same opportunities as my brother and as far as I’m aware no employer has ever thought less of me because I am a woman or treated me differently. That said I have had people make assumptions about me, both as a woman and a young woman, which let me say right now is both transparent and irritating.