Rationale: Across Australia, thousands of practitioners spend hours each week navigating spreadsheets, rewriting the same information for multiple funders, and searching through folders to find goals, activities, or evaluation questions. This creates duplication, administrative burdens, fragmented planning, and inconsistent evaluation. 

Benefit: Q-PRISM (Quality Planning, Reporting, Implementation & System Monitoring) is a user-friendly digital platform designed to transform how public health and human services programs are planned, delivered, and measured across Australia. It reduces administrative burden, builds staff capability, increases productivity, and produces consistent data for program funders. By centralising program activities and reporting in one place, Q-PRISM protects organisations from the disruptions of staff turnover — it captures knowledge that stays with the organisation, supports new staff to get up to speed quickly, and builds their capability as they go.

Stage: We have bult a working prototype and are preparing a pilot project focused on testing the tool across health promotion. 

Rationale: Organisations are increasingly expected to demonstrate meaningful engagement with communities and other partners, but tracking this systematically is challenging. Current approaches rely on staff manually entering data into spreadsheets, which is burdensome and leads to ad hoc reporting.  

Benefit: Q-ET automates the capture, categorisation, and analysis of engagement activities, providing insights for teams and organisations while making it easier for them to report, reflect, and demonstrate their engagement.

Stage: We have developed a minimum viable product and are now testing and refining the Q-ET with our QfO innovation partners.   

Rationale: Many practitioners struggle to communicate the “big picture” of how their programs contribute to outcomes. Existing theory of change processes can be abstract, inaccessible and disconnected from practice.  

Benefit: This tool guides users to build and visualise a clear, engaging theory of change, making it easier for staff, boards, and funders to see the logic of programs and their intended impact. It turns complex ideas into simple, intuitive visuals that improve communication and strategic alignment.

Stage: We have developed a prototype and are exploring options for next steps to fully develop this into a minimum viable product.