As a recognised independent provider of child and youth welfare services, we train adults to implement the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in their work with teenagers and young adults as Award Leaders.

We measure our impact in order to be accountable to all stakeholders for our work and to manage our work in an impact-oriented manner. Since 2020, we have been continuously evaluating whether and to what extent young people achieve our impact goals at the first impact level (level 4 in the Phineo impact ladder).

As soon as young people and young adults register on our digital logbook, they receive a digital questionnaire that records their initial situation. At the end of their participation, we send them a second questionnaire to measure the extent to which their self-assessment has changed over the period of their participation in relation to our impact goals. We publish the results of our ongoing self-evaluation in our annual impact reports.

In the long term, we would also like to learn more about the impact of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award on the lives of our participants and on society. To achieve these goals, we would like to collaborate with an educational research institute. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in an evaluation. At the same time, we would be delighted to hear from adults who completed the Duke programme in their youth!

The management of our association is based on smart KPIs, which we define at our general meeting. These are evaluated, reflected upon and revised annually. They include both hard KPIs (number of new Award Operators, number of new participants, number of trained Award Leaders, number of awards presented) and soft KPIs (achievement of our impact goals according to the self-assessment of our participants).