Make your impact easy to see and easy to fund.
We build communication and monitoring (M&E) systems that help nature-based enterprises and nonprofits in East Africa grow.
Good work stays unfunded when nobody outside the field can see it.
Most organisations we meet already have the impact. What they lack is a reliable way to measure it, a clear way to explain it, and a routine that keeps both going after the consultant leaves.
We treat communication as infrastructure: built once, owned by your team, and maintained like any other system you depend on. Monitoring and evaluation sits inside it, so the same data that tracks your outcomes also feeds your reports, your website and your next proposal.
How we work
Four steps, one system. Each step leaves your team with something it keeps.
Step 01
Check
We review your communications, your monitoring and evaluation, and your funding pipeline, then tell you plainly what is missing.
What you get
- A scored review of your comms, MEL and funding readiness
- Interviews with your team and a look at what funders see
- A 12-month plan, in order of what matters most
Step 02
Build
We set up the systems with your team, sized to the people and time you actually have.
What you get
- Theory of change, impact pathways and indicators
- Brand, website and a content routine
- Data collection tools and training for your staff
Step 03
Prove
Your data starts feeding reports, stories and management decisions on a fixed schedule.
What you get
- One set of results, formatted for each funder
- Stories and reports built from real data
- Regular learning reviews that change plans
Step 04
Fund
You go to donors, investors and buyers with evidence they can check for themselves.
What you get
- An evidence pack ready for due diligence
- Proposals, investor decks and donor reports
- A funder map for your kind of work
- One system, owned by your team
- A clear planKnow what to fix first
- Working systemsOwned by your team
- Reporting on scheduleNo more rebuilding reports
- Checkable evidenceReady for funders
What we build
Start here
Impact & Comms Check
A scored review of your communications, MEL and funding readiness, with a 12-month plan you can act on with or without us.
Impact Systems
Theory of change, impact pathways, indicators and a data flow from the field to the report.
Monitoring, evaluation and learningCommunication Systems
Positioning, brand, website and a content routine your team can keep up.
Brand, web, content, filmFunding Readiness
Evidence packs, proposals, investor decks and donor reports, built from the data you already collect.
Grants, investment, donor reporting“[He] was central to the rebrand, leading the name change, new visual identity and website, while making sure everything stayed true to the organisation’s values.”
Built by someone who has done the job
Asilia Impact was founded by Javis Bashabula. At Action For Ocean he built the organisation’s MEAL framework, its theory of change, its knowledge repository and its brand, across four coastal seascapes in Tanzania.
Asilia brings that same work to other organisations, sized to what their teams can run.
Asilia Stories
Our publishing arm. Stories and essays about the people and places behind nature-based work in East Africa. Free to read.
Start with a Check
Three weeks, a fixed scope, and a written plan at the end. If you only ever buy one thing from us, it should still be useful.