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Overview of the Malaysian Collective Impact Initiative
Angeline Chin
4 Nov 2015
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MCII is starting its journey
As unlikely as it sounds, 12
organisations decided to
voluntarily convene
We decided to achieve together
what we cannot do alone, through
Collective Impact
We want our country’s children to
be the best that they can be, in their life-long quest for
learning2
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MCII is starting its journey
As unlikely as it sounds, 12
organisations decided to
voluntarily convene
We decided to achieve together
what we cannot do alone, through
Collective Impact
We want our country’s children to
be the best that they can be, in their life-long quest for
learning3
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Malaysia has a recognised issue in its quality of public education
1. Malaysian students ranked 52 out of 65 in the PISA ranking, bottom one third
2. Only 37.2% of the relevant age group are completing upper secondary, and 15.3% of 25-29 year olds in 2012 are holding a bachelor’s degree or higher
3. Teacher quality is recognisably lower, 93% of those applied do not have pre-requisite requirements
All sectors and levels of society feel compelled to act to uplift the education of our young
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Effective steps have been taken separately to address this issue
1. The government has published the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 to portray our ultimate education goals
2. The private sector has introduced various solutions, like Trust Schools, and a host of intervention programmes – in fact, most CSR efforts in Malaysia focus on Education
3. The social sector has launched various NGOs, like Teach for Malaysia and Edunation
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Everyone is looking to pull their weight, but efforts are not concerted and oftentimes overlapping
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We are all driven by a common purpose:To Improve Educational Outcomes from Cradle-To-Career
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And the 12 came to be.
© MCII 2015
MCII is starting its journey
As unlikely as it sounds, 12
organisations decided to
voluntarily convene
We decided to achieve together
what we cannot do alone, through
Collective Impact
We want our country’s children to
be the best that they can be, in their life-long quest for
learning7
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Though well-intentioned, traditional approaches are having problems addressing systemic challenges like education
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• Funders select individual grantees
• NGOs often work separately and compete
• Evaluation attempts to isolate a particular organisation’s impact
• Large-scale change is assumed to depend on scaling organisations
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Collective Impact represents a structured manner of aligning goals, measuring success and identifying gaps
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• Collective Impact is the commitment of organisations from different sectors to a common agenda, for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration and common measures of success
• The Backbone Organisation helps coordinate education interventions by different organisations to avoid working in silos
• The community determines and owns common goals and an agenda identifying key gaps different stakeholders work on addressing
© MCII 2015
MCII is starting its journey
As unlikely as it sounds, 12
organisations decided to
voluntarily convene
We decided to achieve together
what we cannot do alone, through
Collective Impact
We want our country’s children to
be the best that they can be, in their life-long quest for
learning11
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Backbone Organisation
Community OwnershipShared Measurement
SystemsLinks for Collaboration Holistic Model
Potential Programmes to be Implemented by NGOs, Private Sector, Schools
School
InfrastructureTeacher Support Nutrition
Parenting &
Childcare
Support
OthersCareer
Placement
Credit
Suisse
Hong
Leong
Hap Seng
GroupPrudential YTL Sapura PwC
British
CouncilAIM
Capacity Skills Programmes
Coordination
IOIPetrosain
sWestports
With its encouraging participation, we are confident MCII will be established as the education changemaker of the nation
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For the first year, MCII will be focused on backbone setup and a pilot location
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Backbone Setup
1. Strategic Framework
2. System Strengthening
3. Data Management
Pilot Location
1. Increase School Retention
2. Reduce Youth Unemployment
2 schools in Klang(suburban district with
gangsterism issues)
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“Mobilizing and coordinating stakeholders is far messier and slower work than funding a compelling
grant request from a single organization.
Systemic change, however, ultimately depends on a sustained campaign to increase the capacity and
coordination of an entire field.”
Mark Kramer, Catalytic Philanthropy, SSIR 2009