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Multidimensional Effectiveness Index

What is the IME?

The Multidimensional Effectiveness Index (IME) is a measurement system that, through eight dimensions, unlocks programs’ potential for improvement and innovation by assessing their level of effectiveness. This index enables organizational teams to self-assess their programs and make decisions aimed at enhancing their quality.
The dimensions of the IME unlock the potential for program improvement and innovation, strengthening their implementation. The index is measured across eight dimensions: four intrasystemic and four intersystemic—that is, related to the external environment. To measure effectiveness, these dimensions are operationalized into subdimensions and indicators that identify standards for building pathways to improvement.
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The Value of Innovation in Chile Today

The IME is an innovation with a public purpose, as it helps address the challenges of evaluating programs’ capacity to tackle the complexities for which they were designed, enabling savings and improvements to make them more effective and fulfill the promise of enhancing their users’ well-being in specific areas. Knowing what, how, and to what extent a program works—and where to adjust it to increase its effectiveness—is essential for improving the quality of services provided to the population targeted by public efforts. This project contributes to that protection agenda through an alert and effectiveness typology (TAE) that examines systems and identifies their shortcomings. Thus, this disruptive innovation becomes a mechanism that increases the likelihood of public policies and public or private programs that proactively assess their own risks.

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Training Programs

Training programs designed for teams, executives, and specialized departments to strengthen organizations’ capacity for self-reflection and the effectiveness of their social initiatives.

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Consulting services

Ongoing, long-term support focused on specific areas: from early adopters to highly scalable models and initiatives tailored to each organization.

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Management advice

One-time and short-term services focused on conducting assessments, designing strategies, and solving specific problems to implement improvements in specific areas.

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Public-Private Partnerships

Partnerships aimed at outreach and advocacy, the expansion of new lines of research, and the internationalization of innovations for the public good.

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Book

Cross the street

This book presents a model of innovation with a public purpose for polycrisis contexts. By recognizing failures and critical issues, the book shows how the CLIPP can transform these limitations into disruptive innovations, articulating polycentric collaboration, transdisciplinary knowledge, technology, implementation from design, and early measurement of effectiveness.

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Chile's slow pace

This book brings together 29 policy briefs that transform Chile's concerns and uncertainties into proposals for innovation with a public purpose. From the University of Chile, the book articulates evidence, technology, and knowledge transfer to address national challenges—aligned with the SDGs and the CTCI strategy—offering concrete ideas for a more just, sustainable, and hopeful development.

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Innovating from failure

This book presents the main results of the FONDEF ID17I10033 project, which developed an early warning prototype for child protection programs from a rights-based approach. Through a typology of warning and effectiveness, it challenges systems by observing their failures and proposes an analysis matrix to improve implementation, interrupt deficient trajectories, and expand opportunities for children and adolescents.

Implement effectively

This book presents the Multidimensional Effectiveness Index (IME), a measurement system with eight analytical dimensions that allows us to observe the effectiveness of childhood programs, broaden our understanding of what it means to be “effective,” and support timely decisions to improve their design, implementation, and sustainability.

IME Platform Simulator

Interactively explore how the Multidimensional Effectiveness Index works. The simulator allows you to navigate the model’s 8 dimensions and see how a program’s effectiveness score is calculated based on its indicators.

Through a guided exercise, you’ll be able to experience the self-assessment process that teams go through when using the platform: uploading information, reviewing results on the pie chart, and identifying which level—alert, minimum functional, or effective—each dimension falls into.

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