The benefits and challenges of involving young people in monitoring and evaluation

Author: Sarah Rose, Collective Discovery, learning partner of The Listening Fund Learning and evaluation can be powerful processes – informing judgements and decision making about impact, accountability and effectiveness. They are not value- or power-neutral processes: they are shaped by who decides what impact is, what stories get told, and what is deemed significant. Involving […]
How we developed co-production at Leap Confronting Conflict

Author: Alexandra McKell, Head of Innovation at Leap Confronting Conflict What we do At Leap Confronting Conflict, we work with young people and the adults that surround them such as parents / foster carers or practitioners, helping them build skills to effectively navigate conflict. Our training fosters healthy relationships, and encourages positive decisions and self-growth. […]
Sharing Power – the extra chapter

Author: Jenny Ross, Collective Discovery, Learning Partner of The Listening Fund In the last blog, Edd, the Listening Fund’s manager, wrote about our Sharing Power practice paper – highlighting the importance of being clear about the purpose of sharing power, the process through which you will do it, and what and how you will learn […]
Sharing Power – a report from Collective Discovery and The Listening Fund

Throughout 2023 we’re going to be sharing what we’re learning through a series of blogs, podcasts, and more. The blogs will be written by different people involved in the Fund – me, Edd Fry, the Fund’s lead, as well as young people, partner organisations, and funders, amongst others. Our ambition is to share what we […]