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Public Impact Fundamentals

Discover how you can achieve public impact using a tried and tested, simple framework: The Public Impact Fundamentals.

When it comes to public impact there are three things that matter most.

We spoke to people at all levels in government from around the world, consulted leading academics and analysed hundreds of case studies, to understand what makes policies successful.

Three factors appeared again and again in our assessment of effective policies: LegitimacyPolicy and Action. We call these the Public Impact Fundamentals.

A framework for successful policy

To make achieving public impact easier, we created the Public Impact Fundamentals framework, which gives you a simple, practical tool to assess your public policies and ensure the three fundamentals are embedded in them.

Legitimacy

For an initiative to have legitimacy, there needs to be public confidence behind it and in the institutions involved, stakeholder engagement and the necessary political commitment backing the policy.

Policy

For an initiative to be a well-designed policy, it needs to have clear objectives to ensure common agreement on the problem the policy is trying to solve, take into consideration the suitable evidence, as well as have feasibility, to ensure there are no legal, human resource or financial barriers that would affect impact.

Action

To translate the idea of an initiative into action, the appropriate management and measurement mechanisms to ensure progress is made and can be measured need to be in place, as well as an alignment of interests of those actors required to make change happen.

The Fundamentals in action

We have a whole library of examples from around the globe, exploring how the Public Impact Fundamentals work in the real world.

 

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