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Review and test your impact map

As a team, review your map end to end. Look for gaps, hidden assumptions or missing voices. Follow the steps below to validate your thinking so far.

Tips for reviewing and testing your impact map

  • Bring diverse voices from across your value chain to review and feedback on your assumptions and priorities

  • Gather senior support and buy in

  • Assign impact champions for engaging wider teams in your progress

  • Communicate regularly, keep assets open

  • Set expectations - this won’t solve all of your problems!

  • Keep your map as a 'living WIP', share it in its unpolished form to invite more input and critique

Layers you can add to your map

Once your comfortable with your impact and outcomes statements, you can begin layering new elements into your visualisation;

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  1. ​Solutions/interventions

  2. Indicators

  3. Evidence

  4. Enablers of change (internal / external)

  5. Mechanisms ('in the moment' signals) of change

  6. Feedback loops 

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