WHISE 2017-2018 Annual Report

Annual Report 2018
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Mutually reinforcing
activities
Participant activities must be differentiated
while still being coordinated
through a mutually reinforcing
plan of action. A collective impact
approach requires that stakeholders’
actions are coordinated. Stakeholders
are likely to be undertaking
different actions but these actions
should all contribute to the same
goal, and should complement each
other as outlined by an overarching
plan of action
backbone support (whise)
Creating and managing collective
impact requires dedicated staff with
specific skills to coordinate participating
organisations and agencies.
Collaborative work requires a supportive
infrastructure in the form
of dedicated staff and resources.
Backbone support organisations
have six essential functions: overseeing
strategic direction; facilitating
stakeholder communication;
monitoring data collection and
analysis; managing funding; coordinating
community outreach; and
communications
shared measurement
Collecting data and measuring
results consistently across all
participants ensures that efforts
remain aligned and participants
hold each other accountable. The
stakeholders involved in the initiative
collaboratively develop a set
of shared indicators against which
progress is measured. It is expected
that once data is collected against
these indicators, the stakeholders
will regularly meet to refine
strategies based on their results.
The backbone support organisation
plays a key role in enabling shared
measurement, potentially training,
facilitating, collating or reviewing
data or data collection methods