Aligned Metrics Initiative
About the Toolkit
PQMD’s Aligned Metrics Initiative (AMI) Toolkit helps organizations tell a clearer, more credible story about the contribution of medical donation programs. It offers a shared, practical approach for moving beyond outputs—such as products delivered—toward outcomes that reflect increased availability of priority products, continuity of care, and expanded capacity to deliver care. The toolkit helps users choose what is appropriate for their program, build on information they already have, and make measurement manageable, useful, and proportionate.
What’s in the Toolkit
- Seven flexible modules that can be followed in sequence or explored as needed.
- Practical tools for selecting metrics, measuring in partnership, interpreting findings, planning impact stories, gathering qualitative evidence, and exploring outcomes.
- Shared foundations, including key terms, three priority impact areas, and a theory of change.
- Ready-to-use resources, including metric cards, a filterable metrics catalogue, guidance, fillable PDFs, and editable data-collection spreadsheets.
How It Was Developed
AMI was developed with over 30 stakeholders at every level of the medical donation continuum, including corporate donors, NGO distributors, implementing partners, in-country practitioners, measurement experts, and those delivering care. The first phase combined a landscape and document review with key informant interviews to understand current practices, challenges, opportunities, and the measures stakeholders considered relevant, feasible, and meaningful. The second phase moved from research to intensive alignment: a steering group reviewed and refined the findings through a sustained series of working meetings, tested priorities, and built consensus around a shared approach. PQMD then synthesized the full body of input and translated it into the practical guidance, tools, and resources in this toolkit.
