Collective Impact and the Backbone Team
The Barkly Regional Deal adopts a collective impact approach. This approach recognises that solving complex social issues requires collaboration, engaging all stakeholders to work together to create relevant solutions and lasting impact for their community.
Collective impact is different from ‘isolated impact’, where a single organisation works to provide a solution to address a specific issue. Often, the complex challenges that a collective impact approach seeks to address do not have a single, clear solution. Rather, they have complex solutions that require input and knowledge from a range of stakeholders across different sectors like community members, service providers, government leaders, businesses, NGOs and anyone else committed to the community.
To learn more about collective impact check out our Resource page.
The Backbone Team supports the collective impact approach by working with stakeholders at every level and reporting back to the Governance Table to:
- develop and progress the community’s vision of the Barkly Regional Deal,
- set targets and track progress of initiatives,
- collect, analyse and report evaluation data to support learning and improvement of the work
- facilitate Working Groups where community members and other stakeholders can provide feedback and recommendations about certain aspects of the 28 initiatives,
- ensure communities across the Barkly are engaged in the Barkly Regional Deal,
- support communities to develop Community Plans.
Barkly Regional Deal Backbone Team Member
Lucy McGarry
Measuring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator
