ESIA member SEND e.V. – the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany – invites you to an online Impact Roundtable on the topic of Credible Claims in Complexity: A Methodology for Impact Measurement in Social Innovation.



When: Wednesday, April 22 from 3 pm to 4:30 pm CEST

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/send-impact-roundtable-credible-claims-in-complexity-with-live-coaching-tickets-1985442781807



To foster social innovation across Europe today means navigating a widening gap between two realities. One is the reality of reporting: the necessary demand for accountability, data, and proof of impact. The other is the reality of our ecosystems: a call for working with complexity, shifting power, and acknowledging that true systemic change is rarely linear.

For too long, evaluation has functioned as an extractive exercise: mining data to count the short-term "fruits" of a project while ignoring the health of the "soil" (trust, relationships, and capacity) that sustains them.

The Roundtable

As part of the European Social Innovation Alliance (ESIA) project, SEND e.V. and Unity Effect invite you to a thematic deep-dive into the future of impact measurement and evaluation.

In this 90-minute interactive roundtable, we will bridge the gap between rigorous reporting and complex reality. We will introduce "Regenerative Evaluation", the Impact Garden framework, and a methodology designed to help social innovators, funders, and policymakers make credible claims about their contribution to systemic change without oversimplifying the story.

What we will explore:

• Moving from "predict and control" to "sense and respond," and why we must stop just counting the fruits and start tending to the soil.

• Credible claims in complexity: How to capture the "invisible" value of trust, connection, and systemic vitality, and build

• Live coaching & practical application: We will facilitate a live coaching demonstration and practical exercise to show exactly how this framework can be applied to real-world social innovation projects.

• A guided discussion on how shifting our measurement paradigms can unlock better funding models and advocacy strategies across Europe.

Preparation & Open Source Resources:

All frameworks shared in this session are fully open source. To get a head start before the roundtable, we invite you to read Unity Effect’s blog post on “M&E in Complexity: Presenting a methodology for making credible claims” where you can also download the complete Methodology Brief.

Who is this for?

Social entrepreneurs, impact investors, policymakers, and ecosystem builders who are looking for alternatives to rigid logframes.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Uniton or European Social Fund Agency. Neither the European Union nor the Grantin Authority can be held responsible for them.



About the Impact Roundtables

SEND e.V. will provide various opportunities for knowledge exchange, skills development and networking as part of ESIA - The European Social Innovation Alliance. This online Impact Roundtable is the first in a series, in which SEND will talk with guests from Germany and abroad on the subject of impact measuring related to social innovation. The roundtables will be held in English.



Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the roundtable hosts and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Social Fund Agency. Neither the European Union nor the Granting Authority can be held responsible for them.