A movement from poverty and dependency towards independence and dignity
in Africa
The Greenlight Movement is a collaborative group of 100+ non-profits, social enterprises, and businesses who use the Greenlight approach to measure, understand and evidence their social impact. ‘Greenlight’ is a social methodology and metric (survey) that helps people progress out of poverty by empowering them to understand and map their own choices. It encourages households and employees to participate and own their journeys to a better quality of life, and at the same time, allows organisations delivering support to articulate the progress of social impact against their programme objectives.
Orgs using the Greenlight approach
Survey types available
Surveys conducted since 2015
% Households improved their quality of life in 1 year

The Greenlight Approach
Within the approach, the Greenlight metric is an unusual survey that uses visual and text elements to engage people in self-diagnosing their quality of life. Its a family metric, not a personal development tool. The metric uses the same colours of the conventional stoplight (red, yellow, green) to enable socio-economically challenged individuals and families to see and understand the ways in which they are stuck, struggling, or doing well. As poverty (an insufficiency) is multi-dimensional, our surveys assess quality of life using indicators grouped into dimensions of poverty, resilience, or disability (depending on the metric being used). For every one of the indicators, there are three scenarios that assist a person or a household to describe their situation:



We follow the journeys from impoverishment
and dependence to independence and dignity

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