1. List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary. 

 

Cultural:	Financial:	Aftermath:	General Impact
Will this impact affect religious or cultural beliefs?  Do they want to be impacted?  Will the government accept this impact?  Will there be backlash on our impact?  Will others adapt to this impact?  In what ways does in impact benefit people and communities?  Will this impact indigenous cultures?	Will this impact be costly?  Where will we get funding for this impact?  How will we continue to get funding after we leave the site of impact?	Will this impact change birthing practices directly?  Will this impact benefit people besides mothers and children?  Will this impact be world wide?  Will others be inspired to create more impact?	Will making this impact be  difficult?  In what ways can we impact?  How can we measure this impact?  Can this impact be negative?  How can we look at this impact in a broader sense?  In what ways does our help impact?

 

2. Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture. 

 

Stakeholders	Inputs	Outputs	Outcomes
Mothers/Children Healthcare workers Healthcare Network	Money Product Hospital/Vendor partnerships Work and Time that the team puts into the project	Decrease in number of non-violent births Mortality rate of mothers and infants at the time of childbirth Number of birthing chairs bought and successfully used	Better connections with field professionals and mothers who are willing to participate. More knowledgeable about birthing practices and how they are different within the US.  Less birthing  Complications Less suffering for the mother and faster recovery time More comfortable births that are aligned with cultural norms

 

3. Develop a M&E plan for your venture. – Clearly list all assumptions. – Identify short-term and long-term success metrics. – (Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics.

 

Long Term Metrics

• A decrease in complications while birthing
• Spreading our birthing chairs to other East Asian countries
• Our birthing chairs being available in most hospitals and health centers in the Philippines
• A decrease in infant and mother mortality

 

Short Term Metrics

• A deep understanding of current birthing methods / practices in different areas of the Philippines (ex: rural, suburban, urban) 
• Connections made to the people for the Philippines (doctors/ nurses/ physicians/ mothers)
• A better understanding of the religion such as is there any restrictions that do not allow people to do certain thing

 

We will measure our metrics by distributing surveys to mothers on how comfortable birthing chairs are and if their design align with their cultural beliefs. Additionally, we will ask hospitals and other health clinics on how many mothers preferred using our birthing chairs instead of the regular ones or other traditional and cultural birthing chairs (like the bamboo-made birthing chairs of the Austronesian people in the Philippines). Other forms of measurement would be gathering statistics on how much less birthing complications were able to occur because of more comfortability and easier access that our birthing chairs provide. Then we can gather data on how much birthing chairs we have sold as well as in how many hospitals and health centers they are provided.