Evaluating a woman's leadership journey and impact by adapting contribution mapping and analysis tools

Complexity manifests in no clearer arena than women’s political leadership and overall empowerment. The nature of the leadership journey, comprised of multiple events and milestones, paired with environmental factors like COVID-19, adds to this complexity. This paper tackles the challenges of measuring program impact in advancing women’s leadership by discussing the Vital Voices Global Partnership (VVGP) approach. Using an adapted contribution mapping and analysis tool, VVGP identified contributions at three levels: programmatic, individual, and community. The tool allowed VVGP to collect evidence about VVGP’s contributions to improved political leadership and the overall VVGP model’s theory of change (TOC).