Impact Stories and Outcomes
10 events | 🌎 400 experts engaged | 🌍 60 countries
Building a trusted global ecosystem for solutions and systems change
Building Momentum for a Major Conference & Proposal
The Goal: MHPSS Collaborative (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) needed to rapidly expand their knowledge and expertise on the track mental health and psychosocial needs of children and youth impacted by climate change, to present a case for funding at the bi-annual Nordic conference on MHPSS in Fragile and Humanitarian settings.
The Outcome: The Catalyst Co-Labs process engaged Global experts, included those with lived experience, engaged to enable the MHPSS Collective to present a holistic design policy and funding recommendations, was the the best prepared case at the conference which impacts future policy and funding decisions.
Urgently Find Solutions to Help Children in Gaza During the War
The Goal: Creativity Lab Palestine needed to improve their methodologies & tools for their teachers and psychologists to serve children with informal play based education and mental health services in the midst of the war in Gaza, given the educational collapse and extreme trauma the children faced.
The Outcome: The Catalyst Co-Lab brought collaborators, points of expertise and technical tools to rapidly improve technical approaches to MHPSS support and learning for Gaza-based teachers and psychologists to implement directly on ground, providing critical support the children of Gaza. Two grants to support our program implementation, new techniques were tested with immediately with 2,000 children and a digital platform was developed for resources.
Learning Re-Imagined for the 21st Century
The Goal: Growing up in the 21st century requires a different approach to learning and school. How do we transform that plan into reality for children and teenagers currently in school, and those who will immediately follow? Explore what’s next with Howard Blumenthal, Media Executive, Author, Visionary, his panel of experts and learnings based on his new book, KIDS ON EARTH: The Learning Potential of 5 Billion Minds (based on 1,000+ global interviews)
The Outcome: The conversation revealed a shared belief across countries and educational traditions: adults have not been listening closely enough to children. The young people interviewed for Kids on Earth clearly expressed what they want from their education. They desire learning rooted in curiosity, the freedom to explore passions, opportunities to connect across borders, and environments where their identities and voices are valued. They want teachers who meet them where they are. Preparing children for the future requires more than just fixing current systems. It calls for new learning models built with children, not just for them. The next generation already knows what they need. Our task is to listen and create conditions for them to thrive.
Uncover a Pathway to Measure the Impact of an Ecosystem
The Goal: Collaborative Value Partners Africa needed help to determine how to measure the outcomes and impact of their Africa wide Collective Enterprise Model so they could manage, evolve, and replicate it for impact.
The Outcome: The Co-Lab surfaced several ways to measure the performance and impact of cross-sector collaboration. Across the sessions, teams identified a set of multidimensional collaboration metrics, including ethical operating principles, sustainability, shared value (recognizing it is not always equal value), role clarity, transparency and accountability, shared narrative, and formal communication practices.
The Co-Lab also sparked new collaborations: many participants continued working with CVPA afterward, carrying forward the shared insights and the enabled the framework for ICE Index, now the CVPA’s reporting tool used to track the wellness of the enterprise workforce, assesses their systems-change approach and demonstrates the social impact of the enterprises, activities and initiatives on the targeted community.