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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.

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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

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

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Collective Impact organises the actors to ensure consistent focus and progress

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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

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

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Thank you.

Angeline Chin, Credit Suisse

info@mcii.org.my