Our Methodology
ila’s proprietary EDI framework
Our proprietary EDI framework relies on FIVE pillars designed to highlight successful programs within your company and plan with you for potential long-term improvements.
Past projects
LSE Generate: stepping up on EDI
Generate is the London School of Economics’ home for socially conscious entrepreneurship, supporting LSE innovators with the infrastructure to build, develop and scale their ideas to contribute to the betterment of society.
Generate contracted ila to evaluate their EDI sensitivity and identify points of improvement.
Ask
1. Audit the current status of all their internal processes, activities and communications
2. Produce a full report, toolkits, frameworks and a Code of Conduct
3. Create and deliver a training for the team and some onboarding material for new staff
Deliverables
Evaluation & Impact report
Recommendations to improve EDI at the hub
A Customized Code of Conduct
Communication material to share the EDI status with the LSE community
Frameworks and evaluation toolkits
Checklists and tools to improve
EDI team training
EDI toolkit for entrepreneurs
“We have got to know ila over the last few years and find them to be a super trustworthy, hardworking and extremely innovative gang. They are passionate about their work and combined with a drive to change the status quo, they are the perfect team to be running this kind of work. I cannot recommend them highly enough!"
- Laura-Jane Silverman,
Head of LSE Generate
Nairobits Trust: serving all students regardless of their gender
The Nairobits Trust was created in 1999 with the mission to "change the ways in which opportunities are apportioned" by equipping youth from the informal settlements of Nairobi with ICT skills. In 20 years, Nairobits has trained more than 32 000 students amongst which 70% have found a job within 6 months after graduation.
Ask
1. Identify the program’s main assets from students’ perspective with a special focus on female students.
2. Recommend and create quantitative and qualitative tools and KPI's to efficiently and accurately measure the training program’s impact on students’ personal and professional development.
Deliverables
Evaluation & Impact report
Recommendations for data collection
Qualitative measurement tools to use
Identification of students' value drivers & pain points during and after the programme
Comparative analysis of female students' personal and professional evolution vs. male students
"The report focusing on NairoBits M&E for NairoBits Girls in ICT project continues to serve as a reference point when designing our programmes. The depth and accuracy of the report helped us identify gaps and provided invaluable information that has helped us in the review of our programs."
- Magdalene Wanjugu
Executive Director at Nairobits Trust
Mumbai Smiles: commiting to gender equality
Mumbai Smiles is a non-profit organisation (NGO) that works with the most disadvantaged communities of Mumbai, within a cooperative framework of urban development to give shape to a new reality of social justice. So far, more than 8,000 people have been beneficiaries of this shared project with Sonrisas de Bombay, their sister organisation in Spain.
Ask
1. Review Mumbai Smiles’s gender-based violence policy to identify gaps and points of improvement.
2. Make actionable recommendations for the gender equality and gender-based violence guidelines to be as impactful as possible.
Deliverables
Report highlighting points of improvement of the current policy
Recommendations for safe and fair reporting processes
“At Mumbai Smiles, we have seen very dramatic differences in gender roles and behaviours that create inequalities, whereby one gender becomes empowered to the disadvantage of the other. That is why we wanted to take a step forward in the work we do and have a solid commitment with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals, especially the accomplishment of objective number five: gender equality.
ILA has been crucial and extremely helpful in guiding and helping us to create our own Guidelines to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence. We have no words to express how useful ILA's inputs have been in order to walk the right path towards an equal society.”
- Jaume Sanllorente
Founder & General Director of Mumbai Smiles