Offer implications for funders and program implementers engaged in systems change¶

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Description¶

The brief closes by offering "implications for funders and program implementers engaged in systems change," responding to growing philanthropic and community development interest in investing in systems change and to the difficulty of sorting through proliferating research on systems change success.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Funders and implementers actively engaged in education systems change efforts

Constraints¶

• Implications are derived from a literature review and community narratives rather than from a new experimental evaluation

Target Learners¶

• Children and youth in communities undertaking systems change

Target Learning Goals¶

• Guiding investment and implementation decisions in education systems change

Related Strategies¶

• Co-design investment approaches matched to a community's developmental phase
• Funders should develop learning goals, plan their M&E approach, and communicate expectations before releasing an RFP and awarding grants
• Engage a learning partner to support funders and grantees in designing and carrying out a learning plan and building M&E capacity
• Funders use structured self-reflection to focus place-based systems change investments
• Philanthropies jointly develop evaluation practice for basic science investments through a cross-organization working group

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Naihobe Gonzalez, Nikki Aikens, Jennah Gosciak. (2021). What Drives Systems Change? Key Findings and Implications from a Literature Review on Systems Change in Education. Mathematica. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/key-findings-and-implications-from-a-literature-review-on-systems-change-in-education