Ripple effects mapping

About Ripple Effects Mapping

We help our partners understand the impacts of complex projects through using a modified ripple effects mapping process alongside other tools for project evaluation. These tools are participatory and move beyond counting the number of people who attend events and instead map relationship building, unexpected outcomes, and opportunities for future engagement.

Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) is an evaluation process that helps to chart complex impacts (individual, group, neighborhood, regional) of community projects. REM uses qualitative narrative information to document the multilayered effect of a project and codes that information to measure the outcomes. The coding system of REM relies on the Community Capitals Framework as a means to trace the interrelated impacts of the project across seven types of assets or capital: social, cultural, human, political, natural, built, and financial.

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