IMPACT
Understanding our impact
Our 31 years of working with children have convinced us that when children are able to speak up for their own rights, this is a powerful way to ensure that children’s rights are protected in a lasting and effective way.
In order to back-up this conviction with evidence, we have developed a system that enables us to effectively measure and understand the impact of our work each year.
The information presented in our Impact Reports (see below) has been collated by our partners and assessed against a set of overarching indicators – verifiable changes that show we are achieving our key strategic aims of:
- protecting children from immediate harm and defending their rights in the long-term.
- tackling neglected issues that threaten children's rights.
- strengthening children's organisations in Colombia.
2022 impact highlights
THE PEOPLE
That’s almost 3,200 people who are better equipped to protect children’s rights as a result of our work in 2020 alone!
In 2022 we worked with 2,022 children and young people. As a result of this work, we also indirectly impacted the lives of a further 1,369 children – siblings, peers and neighbours of the children who participated in our project activities.
We also worked with adults – parents, teachers, policy makers – to encourage and help them to keep children safe now and in the long-term. In 2022, 1,108 adults participated in our project activities or attended forums, performances and campaigns led by children from our projects. A further 2,115 adults benefited indirectly from our work. That’s a total of 6,614 people who benefited from our work in 2022.
THE ISSUES
We worked on three ‘neglected issues’ in 2022:
- Recruitment of children into armed groups and reintegration into society
- Sexual and gender based violence
- Exclusion from Education
THE PARTNERS
We worked in partnership with eight inspiring organisations in 2022, providing much-needed funding to run their programmes but also technical support to help them become stronger organisations, better able to defend the rights of vulnerable children in the long-term
THE RIGHTS
In 2022, we supported our partners to protect 9 children’s rights.
For instance, we protected the rights of:
- 2,022 children against discrimination
- 1,274 children’s access to education.
- 1,274 children to use their own language and culture
- 748 children against violence
- 286 children to recovery and reintegration
- 748 from exploitation
Impact Reports
The following reports pull together our overall organisational impact from 2017 onwards
What about the 2023 numbers?
The process of assessing, collating and presenting the detailed impact information we receive from each of our partners takes time and resources, especially for a small organisation like ours. We aim to have our annual organisational impact data ready to share with you by the middle of the year following that in which the work took place – so look out for our 2021 Impact Report in the summer of 2022!
We are committed to carrying out this type of analysis on a regular basis because we want to be able to prove to our supporters, like you, that our work is achieving what we set out to do.
