Impact Measurement Reclaimed: From Compliance to Agency, Technology, and System Change
Thu 18 Sep 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
In a world dominated by dashboards and compliance, impact measurement risks becoming a hollow exercise—focused on accountability rather than transformation. While environmental metrics have advanced, social and human indicators remain fragmented and disempowering, often serving funders more than communities. Measurement tends to overlook what truly drives change: relationships, trust, and collaborative systems.
This session challenges the idea that more data equals more progress. Instead, it calls for a shift from activity tracking to agency-enabling, from siloed compliance to technology-powered, systemic learning and capital alignment. Drawing from grassroots innovations, financial rethinking, and digital intelligence, the session reimagines measurement as a living tool—not to control change, but to unlock it.
Participants will explore where current metrics may be muting their mission, and how rethinking what and how we measure can center equity, enable partnerships, and fuel systems change. Through provocations, case studies, and a hands-on Breakout Lab, this 90-minute session invites changemakers to reclaim measurement as a catalyst for meaningful, systemic transformation.
