Our supported projects

How we define and measure success

Programs serve as vehicles of sustainable change. Thus, defining success, in line with our beliefs and values, is critical for Demeter in identifying, selecting, and providing support for an intervention.

To assess success, we use the following performance indicators:

• Provision of long-lasting economic solutions to societal challenges
• Program scalability- a successful idea can be adapted to reach a bigger scale or replicated in various places, beyond the local initial context.
• Program replication- lessons learnt on a project can be leveraged to address similar problems in other fields.
• Program autonomy- the ability to reach financial self-autonomy.

The real measure of success lays in the ability to break from an often self-reinforced loop of a persistent socio-economic challenge and to turn it from a vicious circle into a virtuous one. Demeter also develop quantitative Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track and measure its success and impact on final beneficiaries.

For example, economic reinsertion is pivotal in breaking down the vicious circle of the current prison system and creating a virtuous circle which is actually the result of many, complementary virtuous cycles, as seen below. Read more here

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