Simply put, your impact is the difference you make.
It is the broad and/or long-term effects of your activities. This can include the effects on direct users of your services, the effects on those who are not direct users (e.g. siblings, friends), and the effects on the wider community (e.g. governmental policy, public health).
Impact practice is the range of activities that a group carries out to focus on its impact. Or to put it another way, all the things you do to put your impact into practice.
It is much broader than monitoring and evaluation and includes activities such as...
- Designing the desired impact
- Planning how to measure it
- Collecting information about it
- Making sense of that information
- Communicating it and learning from it.
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