Luminate Group

Key Focus Areas
Governance and citizen engagement
Globally underrepresented groups
Countering the spread of misinformation
Sophoi Services
Emergent learning
Collaborative sensemaking
Adaptive management

Luminate Group

2023 Luminate Learning and Impact Support

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure everyone – especially those who are underrepresented – has the information, rights, and power to influence the decisions that affect their lives.  The four-person Sophoi team supported the Luminate Learning and Impact Team to:

  • Design and advance new elements of Luminate Analytical and Learning Frameworks
  • Conduct a series of five in-person emergent Learning Conversations with the Luminate teams around the world – Sao Paulo, Nairobi, Kuala Lumpur, Lisbon, and Washington DC
  • Lead the evidence collection, analysis and reporting elements of their first annual evidence analysis, presenting the findings to the Luminate Leadership team

Using a collaborative sense-making approach, the team conceptually and practically linked the 3 components – Analytical Framework, the Learning Conversations and the Evidence Analysis.  Sophoi’s collaborative sense-making approached harnessed the experiences and insights of those who matter most to each component to interpret the emergent evidence across Luminate’s programmes.

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