@MartinBrookes's Threads
What follows is a long thread prompted by the (many) recent tweets about efficiency, impact, evidence etc. The thread summarises what I have learned in near 20 years. My current position is different from where I started. 1/n
Impact was a dirty word in the early ‘00s. Many charities hated the subject being raised, especially by people they regarded as interlopers such as @npcthinks. That has changed a lot, but charities still don’t embrace and own the subject enough. 2/n
@NPCthinks The lack of ownership has a number of elements. First, it means there are no common approaches to impact and this vacuum leaves the field open for silly and damaging approaches based on overheads or other misguided notions of “efficiency” or effectiveness. 3/n
