Research and innovation
Research and innovation to help Christian organisations identify the right problems to address with the right solutions.
Are you confident that you are addressing the right problem? Are you solving that problem in the right way?
Christian organisations have the potential to innovate the best solutions to impact society.
However, these solutions are often based on assumptions, and don’t full understand the needs of service users.
Eido’s needs assessments and design research enable organisations to address the right problems, and solve these problems in the right way.
Needs assessment & bespoke research
To have meaningful impact it is vital to fully understand the context or situation.
We will work with you to design or review bespoke research, create appropriate tools such as questionnaires or interviews, and/or gather data and present it in a stunning report. We also help you integrate findings into your ongoing impact strategy.
Discover what your beneficiaries want, think or need
Find out if you are addressing the problem
Enable your beneficiaries to feel listened to
Work out precisely where to focus limited resources
Prove the needs of your beneficiaries to your funders
What are the current needs of your beneficiaries?
What are the perceptions of your organisation?
How can you best meet beneficiary needs?
“We are now able to tailor our product and the marketing around our product to better serve our target audience. We have greater insight into the challenges and barriers our donors are facing and ultimately will be able to see more resource released into the Kingdom because of connecting with those generous individuals and families.”
Hannah Gibney, Head of Growth and Relationships, Stewardship
Design research for innovation
To engage effectively with service users organisations need to innovate and learn from what works. Through our adapted design research process, Eido equips these organisations with the tools to innovate the best fit solutions for the problems they address.
Discover insight into causal pathways that can be used to create a Theory of Change
Avoid basing programmes on unfounded assumptions that can cause more harm than than good
Co-design programmes that have a much higher likelihood of success
Deliver a programme that demonstrates early indicators of success
How can our programme optimally benefit our target audience?
What is the most effective way of engagement?
What do we need to do to ensure our services bring people closer to God?
How can we most effectively scale up globally?
“Working in the field as a humanitarian, it was tough to keep hope amid injustice. Many colleagues left disheartened by the slow progress.
But what if there was another way? I believe that Christian organisations can set a higher standard for effective development. Our innovation approach helps optimally design and invest in what works from the outset.”
Sarah Gray, Head of Evaluation and Learning
Example reports
Eido Impact Cohorts
A cohort-based course to help Christian organisations design, discern, measure, report, and improve their social and spiritual impact.