Impact assessment and monitoring and evaluation framework

In 2013, Social Accountability International (SAI), an international NGO dedicated to improving workplaces through social standards, and the Rapid Results Institute (RRI), a nonprofit that implements change management programs in the developing world, jointly launched the Social Fingerprint Rapid Results program. The program is designed to increase worker-manager engagement and address health and safety issues at 19 pilot factories in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SAI and RRI requested a Capstone team to conduct an impact evaluation of the pilot program and create a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan for the program’s expansion. The team undertook a variety of tasks, including data collection systems for project sites in Turkey and Brazil, fieldwork on-site in Brazil, data analyses and coding, and consultative work to develop an M&E framework that may be replicated at future project sites in new countries.