Grass Skirt Project (GSP) is in the final stages of preparing an independent Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation, with full findings scheduled for release in 2026.

The forthcoming evaluation reflects GSP’s long-term commitment to accountability, transparency, and community-defined impact, ensuring that the value created through youth leadership, gender equity, and community-led sport programs is measured in ways that matter to the people most affected.

Why This Evaluation Matters

Across Papua New Guinea, young people navigate complex realities including gender-based violence, limited access to youth-friendly health services, and few visible leadership pathways. At the same time, communities hold deep cultural knowledge, resilience, and collective strength.

Grass Skirt Project works with communities- not on them- supporting young people to step into leadership using sport as a trusted and culturally grounded pathway.

As GSP continues to scale its work, understanding how social value is created, sustained, and shared is essential- not only for accountability to partners and funders, but for strengthening programs alongside communities themselves.

What the SROI Will Examine

The independent SROI evaluation will assess outcomes across GSP’s integrated program model, including:

• Youth confidence, leadership, and contribution
• Gender equity and safer community norms
• Access to health information and wellbeing pathways
• Community ownership, participation, and systems change

The study has been designed using internationally recognised SROI methodology, informed by community experience and local delivery data, to ensure findings reflect Papua New Guinea realities rather than externally imposed measures.

More Than a Metric

For Grass Skirt Project, impact measurement is not about headline numbers alone. It is about understanding:

• What is changing
• Why it is changing
• How those changes can be strengthened and sustained over time

The SROI evaluation is intended to support learning, partnership, and long-term systems impact, rather than one-off reporting.

Full findings will be shared publicly once the evaluation has been independently finalised and released in 2026.

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