World Vision UK: Our Impact
The value of our work is truly measured by its impact on children's lives. So every year, alongside our financial Annual Report, we publish an assessment of our projects' effectiveness over the last 12 months; our Impact Report.
Our Impact Report is a transparent and inspiring evaluation of how we're working: how our approaches have improved children's lives; how we've improved our ways of working; what we can learn and how we can be even more effective in the future.
2019 WORLD VISION UK IMPACT REPORT
Our Impact Report looks at both:
- breadth of impact - particularly the number of children we have reached with our programming and
- depth of impact - looking at the nature of change in children's lives.
This year we have published five case studies demonstrating the impact of our programmes.
Highlights from these are summarised in a short report which also shows our humanitarian response work last year, updates from our Most Vulnerable Child research, how our faith is incorporated into the work we do, and our campaign It takes a world to end violence against children.
Case study - Girls' education in DRC
Case study - Education and skills for life in Zimbabwe
Case study - Nutrition in Zambia
Case study - Climate change and agriculture in Uganda
Case study - Child-led research -from finding information to influencing community action in Sierra Leone (more about research with the most vulnerable children)
Read the 2019 Impact summary report
WORLD VISION PARTNERSHIP: GLOBAL IMPACT
World Vision UK is a member of the World Vision Partnership of almost 100 offices worldwide.
1/5
Based on an average of 4.16 million people per year over the last three years (FY16-18) reached with access to clean water, and an average of six schools/day over the past three years (FY16-18).
4.16 million people per year/ 31.536 million seconds per year results in one person on an average of every 7.6 seconds being reached with clean water. An average of 2,219 schools were reached over three years, which is equivalent to six schools per day. We have taken a conservative approach and rounded down to three schools per day to account for potential fluctuations from year to year given that we have only tracked schools for the past three years. The data are provided by the World Vision WASH team.
2/5
Programmes directly report numbers of registered children, as well as the number of direct beneficiaries in Horizon. The number of direct beneficiaries can be disaggregated by age range. This analysis used both the total number of sponsored children reported by each of the selected programmes, as well as the total number of direct beneficiaries of child age.
After applying the criteria, there are about 1100 programmes included in the calculation.
The total numbers of sponsored children and direct participating children were calculated across all the programmes. Finally, a sponsored children to direct participating children ratio was calculated by dividing the total number of direct participating per programme by the total number of sponsored children per programme.
The data came from FY18Q4 Sponsorship Field Dashboard developed by the Sponsorship Analytic team.
3/5
From FY14 to FY18 (October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2019), a total of 220,349 children were admitted for treatment of SAM; 215,010 received outpatient therapeutic care, and 5,339 received in-patient care for medical complications at stabilisation centres. Among those who were discharged, 88.6% fully recovered. In addition, 465,844 moderate acutely malnourished children and 231,946 pregnant and breastfeeding women received care through supplementary food programmes. Since 2010, more than 1.8 million women and children under the age of five have been treated through WV’s CMAM programmes. The average recovery rate over five years (FY14–FY18) is 88.6%.
Since 2010, World Vision has been monitoring its Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes using the WV CMAM Database. Data summarised for this claim were produced from the CMAM database.
4/5
We are counting cumulative numbers from FY14 to the end of FY18. In FY18, approximately 40 million children benefitted (directly or indirectly) through relief and development programmes.
We have been continuously learning and improving how we track the difference made by our influencing work, and by the end of FY18 we were able to raise the bar of what we counted as significant results for children — contributions to multiple policies addressing causes of vulnerability for the same children, with evidence of at least one of them being implemented. This came to approximately 294 million children from FY14 to FY18.
5/5
Based on an average of 5.8 million children receiving food assistance per year over the past five years (FY14-FY18)/ 31.536 million seconds per year results in one child per seven seconds. The data are published in the World Vision Food Programmes Master Report.
Based on the FY18 value of 705,353 new households reached by VisionFund, it can be claimed that one new household is reached every 44 seconds (705,353 / 31.536 million seconds per year), equivalent to 1.3 households every 60 seconds. The data are published in VisionFund's 2018 Annual Report and also comes from SAVIX, an external database used by 28 National Offices, and Horizon.
In 2018, there were 705,353 new households reached through new VisionFund loans or jobs created through loans. The Savings Groups data showed that NOs supported 1,256,000 new and existing members. The number of farmers trained was 77,479 after removing possible double counting by project.
Faith in Development Case studies 2019 - How faith is incorporated into our work in Cambodia, CAR, Ethiopia, Senegal, South Sudan and Zimbabwe.
OTHER REPORTS
World Vision UK and World Food Programme impact report 2019 »
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DISABILITY AND INCLUSION
In 2018, World Vision UK launched a five-year research project to improve our evidence base and our understanding of who the most vulnerable children are in the communities in which we work. This looks at the extent to which they are reached, included and impacted, and how their circumstances are addressed by World Vision programmes. The research spans a range of emergency, fragile and development contexts in four countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stage one of the research asked men, women, girls and boys separately to define what makes children most vulnerable in their context. Stage two then met with children defined as most vulnerable to hear about their lives. Read the Summary reports for Year One and Year Two below.
In Sierra Leone, children themselves conducted their own piece of research on a key vulnerability in their community - teenage pregnancy - which has its own child-led research report.This was followed by a case study, to document progress since the report.
Listening to the most vulnerable children - Year One report ›
Listening to the most vulnerable children - Year Two report >
Child led research – The views of girls on stopping teenage pregnancies in Sierra Leone ›
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Five years after completing a programme to support inclusion of disabled people within India, World Vision UK asked an external disability expert (a person with a disability) to evaluate the impact and investigate how far the project had succeeded.
The 4 page report shows the results.