Impact Report

Welthungerhilfe takes pride in designing and implementing impact-oriented projects. We are a learning organization that operates in fast changing and risky environments. As such, not every project results in success. This inaugural impact report is an important milestone on our journey to reflect on our successes and non-successes. It also adds as a benchmark to further strengthen our qualitative and quantitative methods, make use of digital technolgy and software, and improve our outcome and impact orientation. Through this report, we systematically took stock of quantitative results from a significant part of our projects and programs across seven of our key areas of action: food security, nutrition, water, sanitation, economic development, women’s empowerment, and skills-development. Additionally, we dove deep into the qualitative results of selected projects around the world to understand the “why” behind the results and to derive lessons for improved program design. With this report, we further strengthen and promote our culture of transparency and accountability within Welthungerhilfe as well as towards our participants, funders, donors, and the interested public.

In recent years, Welthungerhilfe has done a lot to answer the question of the outcomes and impact of our projects and programs and to use the results for learning at all levels. Crucial steps on this path included the publication of the practical Guidelines for Outcome and Impact Orientation in 2009, with which Welthungerhilfe formulated its understanding of and its requirements for outcome and impact orientation during the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of projects and programs.