Project Portfolio

Moonshot Global’s projects leverage the power of technology, innovation, and partnership to achieve greater impact and scale up successful approaches. The following are a selection of past projects.

PORTFOLIO-LEVEL IMPACT STRATEGY FOR USAID’S EXPLORATORY PROGRAMS AND INNOVATION COMPETITIONS

Client: Innovation Design Services/USAID  Need: Take a more strategic approach to decision making Response:  Embed impact into USAID’s open innovation programming Indicative activities: Facilitated multiple co-creation workshops to update EPIC’s impact strategy in a participatory fashion that ensures uptake. Designed / oversaw meta-evaluation of Grand Challenges for Development (GCD). Developed overarching results framework and portfolio-level… [Learn more]

Data Visualization Example

MEL Data Visualization

Client: All Need: Synthesize MEL data into digestible formats across projects Response: Employ a variety of tools and methods to create engaging visuals Created visualizations for portfolio reviews on trade and blended finance projects Designed charts to summarize surveys and audit findings Displayed operations data upon reviewing internal processes Created narrative final reports build around sets of… [Learn more]

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Impact Partner to the Smart Communities Coalition (SCC)

Client: MasterCard and Power Africa Need: Impact partner to monitor and measure pilots on digital infrastructure, digital tools, and renewable energy in refugee camps and nearby communities Response: Serve as impact partner to support the 32-member coalition Developing impact framework and knowledge management strategy Applying a developmental evaluation approach to measure and monitor impact of… [Learn more]

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MEL Partner to USAID’s Open Innovation Programs

Client: Resonance/USAID DDI/ITR/EPIC Need: MEL partner to support open innovation challenges Response: Take a strategic approach to MEL, embedding impact into the design and carrying it through at the portfolio, program and project levels through Catalyst, a $35 million, 5-year project Indicative activities: Developed and guided implementation of MEL strategies and MEL plans for 4… [Learn more]

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MEL partner to WeScale for Women in Tech in South Asia

Client:  Accelerating Asia/DAI–USAID Need: Design and ensure effective MEL and complete a feasibility study on to inform the network plan post-project Response: Co-create measurement framework and AMELP with consortium partners and DAI, and work collaboratively with Accelerating Asia and partners to implement: Co-create MEL core components with partners including Theory of Change, Results Framework, Indicators… [Learn more]

Third Party Verification of Impact for Social Impact Incentives for WASH

Client: Roots of Impact Need: Independent verification of enterprise outputs and outcomes for impact-linked payments. Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) is a funding instrument that rewards high-impact enterprises with payments for achieving social impact. Response: Conduct verifications using the following methodology Desk Research: Review of pertinent documents to understand how the enterprise carries out its work.… [Learn more]

Third Party Verification of Impact for Impact Investors

Client: Common Good Marketplace Need: Review and monetization of impact for an initiative that aims to advance the Sustainable Development Goals by creating a marketplace for social value whereby creators of impact assets (suppliers) are traders to impact buyers / investors. Response: Serve as independent auditor and advisor and Conduct desk review of supplier-provided outcomes,… [Learn more]

Performance Evaluation of Impact Hub’s Translocal Program Strategy

Client:Impact Hub Global/Argidius Foundation Need: Assess performance of the Argidius Foundation-funded Translocal Program Strategy (TLPS). Response: Apply principles from utilization-focused evaluation to design and conduct a performance evaluation. Cover the following thematic areas: Capacity Building, Program Revenues, Systems Upgrades, and Entrepreneur Outcomes. Employ a mix of evaluation methods to address five key evaluation questions, including… [Learn more]

Performance Evaluation of Technology and Innovation for Financial Inclusion Project

Client: World Council of Credit Unions/US Agency for International Development (USAID) Need: Assess performance of the $7.7 million USAID-funded Technology and Innovation for Financial Inclusion (TIFI) Project. Response: Conduct a collaborating, learning, and adapting-focused evaluation of the TIFI Activity, which aims to increase finance for small and medium enterprises (SME) by developing and deploying an… [Learn more]

Portfolio-Level Impact Strategy for USAID’s Exploratory Programs and Innovation Competitions

Client: Innovation Design Services/US Agency for International Development (USAID) Need: Take a more strategic approach to decision making on Exploratory Programs and Innovation Competitions (EPIC), USAID’s open innovation programs. Response: Embed impact into USAID’s open innovation programming: Facilitate multiple co-creation workshops to update EPIC’s monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) strategy using participatory approaches to ensure… [Learn more]

Impact Partner to USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures

Client: Resonance/US Agency for International Development (USAID) Need: Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) partner to support the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) venture grant program. Response: Develop strategic approach to MEL and address gaps, particularly on data-focused dimensions of the work at the portfolio level. Respond to urgent data needs to provide easy access to data… [Learn more]

Impact Partner to Frontiers Lab Asia

Client: DFAT Australia Need: Monitoring, evaluation and learning support and advisory services to Frontiers Lab Asia (FLA) a collaborative incubator of solutions for strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems in South and Southeast Asia. Response: Provide research and embedded MEL advisory services to FLA. Services include: Input to program design Design and development of impact measurement and monitoring… [Learn more]

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Partner to E-Commerce Development Fund

Client: DT Global/Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade Need: Improve impact measurement among winners of the open innovation competition e-Commerce Development Fund. Response: Serve as monitoring, evaluation and learning partner and member of the competition review committee. Co-create and operationalize a measurement framework for the fund portfolio. Build capacity of 11 grantees in impact… [Learn more]

Portfolio-Level Measurement and Learning Framework for DFAT’s Multilateral Economic Cooperation Section (ECO)

Client: Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade Need: Better articulation of results of Aid for Trade programs and evidence-based decision making about investments. Response: Co-create portfolio-level measurement framework and learning agenda with division and its partners and use this to aid investment decision-making. Co-create and operationalize a measurement framework for a portfolio of 11… [Learn more]

Blended Finance Learning Program with DFAT’s Development Finance Team

Client: Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and trade (DFAT) Need: Articulate goals of and develop a strategic approach to measurement and monitoring of DFAT’s portfolio of blended finance initiatives Response: Co-create and co-implement a program to inform future BF investments in the Indo-Pacific region. A Moonshot–DFAT team is working to: Strengthen DFAT’s leadership in the… [Learn more]

Leadership Development and Management Training Assessment for Customs Leaders in Vietnam

Client: Nathan Associates/USAID Need: Train customs leaders to be equipped in Vietnam’s evolving and dynamic trading across borders landscape Response: Through the Trade Facilitation Program, conducted an assessment and developed an approach to leadership development and management training of customs leaders in Vietnam Conducted a data-driven assessment, which incorporated human-centered design techniques Developed an approach… [Learn more]

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Partner to Scaling Frontier Innovation

Client: DT-Global/Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Need: Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) partner for the Scaling Frontier Innovation (SFI) program, the AUD$14 million program to support the scaling and increased effectiveness of social enterprises by supporting all aspects of the impact investing ecosystem: innovators, incubators, brokers, and capital providers. Response: Serving as… [Learn more]

Strategy Support to the Smart Communities Coalition

Client: MasterCard and Power Africa Need: MEL partner to monitor and measure pilots on digital infrastructure, digital tools, and renewable energy in refugee camps and nearby communities Response: Serving as monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) partner to support the 32-member Smart Communities Coalition (SCC) Developing MEL framework and knowledge management strategy Applying a developmental evaluation… [Learn more]

Data Conversations Guide for Adaptive Management

Client: FHI360/USAID Need: Equip Missions and implementing partners with tools for analyzing data Response: Created a practical guide to data collection for adaptive management Proposed list of key terminology and case studies to be highlighted Conducted focus group interviews with selected USAID staff and consultations with key subject matter experts at USAID and partners Developed… [Learn more]

Performance Evaluation for KDAD Project

Client: Mendez England & Associates/USAID Bureau for Food Security Need: Assess performance of the $35 million KDAD project, which served as the primary implementer of knowledge management, strategic communications, and training services for USAID’s Feed-the-Future program Response: Conducted performance evaluation Moonshot led the team to deliver the following: Performance evaluation concept paper for the evaluation… [Learn more]

Portfolio-level Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan for US Global Development Lab

Client: USAID’s US Global Development (the Lab) Need: Demonstrate results across the Lab’s portfolio Response: Assisted, through subcontract with DAI, three of the Lab’s Centers in developing MEL plans Conducted capacity building workshops with USAID staff Compared existing results frameworks and identified gaps Harmonized indicators and drafted evaluation questions Finalized MEL plans Supported teams in… [Learn more]

Knowledge Management System Development for the British Council in Nigeria

Client: British Council Need: KM system for project working in seven states in Nigeria Response: Co-created sustainable KM system Developed KM strategy Guided staff through self-assessment based on KM core competencies Conducted co-creation workshop to design a demand-driven future state Defined KM products and processes and put into place KM system Developed organizational taxonomy for… [Learn more]

Review of ICT4D Curriculum

Client: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Need: Better measurement and monitoring of results of capacity development of associations program Response: Developed and gained support for an adaptive management approach and MEL plan Worked with staff to develop a theory of change and results Framework Identified common elements of current CIPE capacity building trainings Reviewed… [Learn more]

Partnership Strategy to Support Evaluation of ICT-Enabled Education Initiatives

Client: USAID Need: Advance ICT use in education in developing countries by creating more evidence demonstrating linkage between ICT-enabled approaches and better education outcomes Response: Developed a strategy to use a Global Development Alliance (GDA) to pool donor resources to evaluate whether and how digital innovations contribute to improved early literacy Developed the concept note… [Learn more]