"Measuring impact is a critical activity for effectively reaching objectives both for internal management and for describing achievements. This activity is well developed in businesses and increasingly in governments and NGOs. Yet, networks still face particularly formidable challenges in developing and implementing Impacts Planning, Assessment, Reporting and Learning (IPARL) systems. iScale's Impacts Community of Practice brings together representatives from various networks, evaluation experts and practitioners to share their experiences/expertise, explore the challenges networks face in measuring their impact and develop innovative solutions for these difficulties."

Something I've been pondering a lot as we talk about our network layers…

handy!