A movement from inequality and dependency towards independence and dignity
in Africa
The Greenlight Movement is a collaborative group of 140+ non-profits, social enterprises, and businesses who use the Greenlight approach to measure, understand and evidence their social impact. ‘Greenlight’ is a social methodology + various metrics that assist people to progress to a better quality of life by empowering them to understand and map their own choices. It encourages households in poverty, employees, micro-entrepreneurs, students, teachers, youth, and people with disabilities, to participate and own their journeys … and at the same time, assisting organisations delivering support to evidence 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
The Greenlight approach is an unusual methodology that uses visual elements to engage people in self-diagnosing their quality of life. It puts people at the centre of their own development … and measurement! The metric uses the same colours of the conventional traffic light / dashboard (red, yellow, green) to enable people in various contexts to see and understand the ways in which they are stuck, struggling, or doing well. The Greenlight framework is multidimensional. For example: if you are working with socio-economically challenged individuals and families, then poverty (an insufficiency) is understood to be multi-dimensional, and by selecting to use Greenlight’s Poverty survey, you can assesses a family’s quality of life using indicators grouped into dimensions (themes) of poverty. For every indicator, there are three scenarios that assist a person or household to describe their situation: