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One platform in development, two next, four under study

Every platform goes through five phases before it opens to the sector, with launch partners in each one.

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Social impact measurement and management platform

The organization builds a measurement framework for its programs, collects beneficiary data, and issues its impact report every cycle with its own team.

Stage: In development · co-design with launch partners

Impact platform

  1. Inputs
  2. Activities
  3. Outputs
  4. Outcomes
  5. Impact

Social return on investment

4.71 : 1

Value by year

386,325195,367

Activity year's share of value

Impact report

Social return on investment

4.71 : 1

Activity year's share of value

Total investment
123,605
Total social value
581,692
Illustrative screens of the social impact measurement and management platform.

Platform units

  • Measurement framework

    The program's outcome chain, indicators for every level, and their targets.

  • Data collection

    Forms and surveys for beneficiaries and field teams, kept in the organization's own record.

  • Analysis and follow-up

    A dashboard that tracks indicators across periods and compares program results.

  • Reports

    A draft impact report in Arabic with indicator tables and their data sources.

Methodology reference

  • Outcome chains for building the measurement framework.
  • Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology.
  • Reference indicators for each field, chosen by the organization.

The assistant's role

  • Suggesting initial indicators for the organization to review.
  • Drafting questions for data-collection tools.
  • Summarizing open answers and surfacing their patterns.
  • Preparing the report draft from platform data.

How a platform is built and run

Where each platform stands today across the five phases.

  1. Needs analysis

    With our partners we find a recurring need in one of the tracks, and check its size and how it is handled today.

  2. Methodology

    We set the methodological reference the tool is built on and write its steps in a form a platform can carry.

  3. Co-design

    We design the platform with organizations and supporting bodies from the same field and review every stage with them.

  4. Pilot

    We run it with launch partners on real data and adjust it to their feedback before release.

  5. Release and development

    We open the platform to the sector and add capabilities by actual use and members' priorities.

  • Social impact measurement and management platform

    Now

    Current phase: Co-design

  • Development project design platform

    Next

    Current phase: Needs analysis

  • Governance and compliance platform

    Next

    Current phase: Needs analysis

  • Social entrepreneurship

    Under study

    Current phase: Needs analysis

  • Social investment opportunities

    Under study

    Current phase: Needs analysis

  • Endowments and their products

    Under study

    Current phase: Needs analysis

  • Grants and partnerships

    Under study

    Current phase: Needs analysis

Roadmap

The order of the later layers is reset by the needs study and the priorities of launch partners.

  • Development project design platform

    Next

    Devising and designing development, charitable and social-investment projects, from problem analysis to the implementation plan.

    Track:
    Impact
    Stage:
    After the needs test is complete

  • Governance and compliance platform

    Next

    Tracking disclosure requirements and statutory deadlines, and organizing the documents of the organization and its board.

    Track:
    Institutional building
    Stage:
    After the needs test is complete

  • Social entrepreneurship

    Under study

    Incubating social ventures and developing their business models to funding readiness.

    Track:
    Sustainability and resource development
    Stage:
    Needs study

  • Social investment opportunities

    Under study

    Connecting opportunities with interested parties, assessing their readiness, and tracking their performance and returns, without executing funding inside the platform.

    Track:
    Sustainability and resource development
    Stage:
    Needs study

  • Endowments and their products

    Under study

    A register of assets, yields and disbursements, trustee reports, and marketing of the endowment's products and services.

    Track:
    Sustainability and resource development
    Stage:
    Needs study

  • Grants and partnerships

    Under study

    Receiving support requests, assessing them against published criteria, and following funded projects.

    Track:
    Sustainability and resource development
    Stage:
    Needs study

Value for each audience

NASAQ's platforms serve four audiences, each with what it gets and the platforms that fit it.

  • Non-profit organizations

    A stable framework to design projects and measure their impact, reports generated from their own data, and tools to follow governance.

    • Impact
    • Project building
    • Governance

  • Donors and funders

    A dashboard following the impact of what they fund, clear criteria for selecting projects, and the option to fund platform access for a group of organizations.

    • Impact
    • Grants and partnerships

  • Waqf entities

    Tracking assets, yield and disbursement to beneficiary channels, the trustee's reports, and marketing waqf products.

    • Waqf and its products

  • Social entrepreneurs and investors

    Developing social business models to funding readiness, presenting opportunities to interested parties and following their performance.

    • Social entrepreneurship
    • Social investment

All platforms run on one infrastructure and one user account, so an organization moves between them with the same data.