About
The Children’s Investment Foundation (CIFF) acknowledged the increased need for digital insight tools among their grantees. The idea was to provide a space that could support their community to find new approaches for their projects and share their stories. They partnered with six agencies to develop and pilot a social insight toolkit to support its grantees to increase confidence in and use of these technologies. The result was the Insight Atlas.
Common Collective was the piloting and evaluation partner, helping the team to pilot the service and understand user needs and experience by integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. We designed an evaluation strategy that informed the development of its first prototype and allowed us to test it end-to-end with potential users.
Through sessions with CIFF grantees, we performed an in-depth evaluation and estimated added value and benefits of the Insight Atlas. We also identified potential barriers for selecting and finding the right tool for their project which informed refinements for the first prototype. In addition, we designed a robust experimental study which involved a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) where a larger and unbiased sample of participants were randomly allocated to complete tasks either with or without access to the Insight Atlas. This enabled robust comparisons and for CIFF to see the impact of the Insight Atlas compared to doing the same tasks without access.
Common Collective, as monitoring and evaluation partner, provided real-time insights to inform and improve the prototype design and development of the Insight Atlas. The Insight Atlas is now a useful tool that allows funders, implementers, and researchers to find and select the best social insight tool for their projects.
People
Dr Rebecca Bendayan, Dr Avri Bilovich, Katherine Jennings
Disciplines
Evaluation, Experimentation, Qualitative research, Behavioural insights, Design insights