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now laureus is SETTING THE STANDARD SAYS MARTINA navratilova G rupo Desportivo e Recreativo de Manica (GDM), a football-based Laureus-supported project in Mozambique, is one of over 20 grassroots projects worldwide that is benefiting from InFocus – a ground breaking new package of software and support that helps sport for development organisations to measure their effectiveness. LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER MARCEL DESAILLY DURING A TRAINING SESSION AT ORPHANAID, GHANA Laureus created InFocus with two collaborators – Streetfootballworld and Acumen Social Technologies – to help both funders and grassroots sports programmes to track their social impact and use the information they collect to support continuous internal learning. Ultimately the aim is to help projects and their funders to understand what works, what doesn’t and why. GDM’s Vice President Chote Chikwandingwa explains: “Just when I was about to give up on reporting to funders because of the tiresome task of retrieving data from mountains of papers, the InFocus software rescued me.” In recent years Laureus has pioneered significant innovations in the sport for development world, none more so than the development of effective monitoring and evaluation. - MONITORING AND EVALUATION - LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION - 14 - LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Laureus World Sports Academy Member Martina Navratolova said: “I think it’s essential for the projects to know how they should structure themselves because now with the austerity measures in Europe and the United States what gets cut first in schools is art and athletics. So there will be even fewer opportunities for kids to really be active and to do sports so I think it’s even more essential that Laureus does this work where we become really extremely efficient and make sure that the money goes in the right direction and that the programmes are implemented correctly.” For years most information collected from Laureus projects was limited to data around funds received and activities being delivered (for example the number of youths accessing different types of sporting and educational sessions), rather than to outcomes, measuring actual life changes taking place as a result of those activities. Infocus allows Laureus and its network of supported projects to see their impact in much more detail, including life changes created for youths and also (as shown in the chart below) the impact Laureus has on the organisations it supports, who now receive a broad package of Laureus support spanning funding, software, tools, training and knowledge exchanges such as Laureus Global Summits. HOW SPORT FOR GOOD PROJECTS BENEFITTED FROM LAUREUS SUPPORT IN 2012 Staff or volunteers gained new skills or knowledge Other Increased public awareness of our programme 7.7% 19.2% 20.5% 16.7% 16.7% 16.7% Developed new, improved training curricula or leadership programmes Improved facilities Improved the way that we manage our programmes Increased efficiency in how we use our resources “This data is gold dust for funders as it allows us to assess the impact of our grants on the people we exist to help and to see how that impact fluctuates across countries and periods of time. Without it, we fly blind,” said Ned Wills, Global Director of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
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