Ripple Effects Mapping NIHR ARC West course

Are you looking for a method to capture the wider impacts of your project or programme? What about a method that brings your stakeholders together to reflect on what they have achieved and think about their work in the future?

If so, Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) could be a useful method for you. Ripple Effects Mapping is a participatory, qualitative method that can capture the wider (intended and unintended) impacts of a project or programme. It brings people together who have been involved in, or affected by, the delivery of a project or programme to visually map out what they have done and the impacts to date. Often, traditional forms of evaluation only capture a small proportion of what really happens. This means that valuable information can be missed and is why REM can be so valuable.