About us
Key Impact is an independent consultancy firm specialized in public and non-for-profit sector development. Founded by Dr. Yuval Ofek, PhD in network evaluation and experienced evaluation manager, and Ms. Krisztina Varga, capacity development and data specialist, Key Impact successfully brings together interdisciplinary theory with lessons learnt from actual practice.
Key Impact’s services include the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems, and commissioning social development researches. Key Impact’s evaluative services help our partners realize the difference between failure and successes, between waste of resources and effective interventions, and in short, the difference between simply working towards or actually creating social impact.
Key Impact regularly teams up with other experts (academicians and practitioners), who contribute to our work with their specialist sectoral and thematic knowledge. Among our partners are the Research Center on Poverty at the University of Haifa, the Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine at the Hebrew University-Hadassah, and the Public Management Institute at KU Leuven.
Our founders
Dr. Yuval Ofek
Co-Founder, Senior Evaluator
Dr. Ofek is an evaluation consultant with experience in developing monitoring and evaluation systems for grand-scale, multi-annual programmes and complex networks in the public and non-profit sectors. Dr. Ofek is Adjunct Professor at the Center for Public Management and Policy at the University of Haifa and at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches Master’s courses on programme evaluation, performance management and organizational theories. Dr. Ofek obtained his PhD in network and program evaluation at the Public Governance Institute at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research projects on meta-evaluation, methodology, learning organizations and network evaluation have been published in leading academic journals.
Krisztina Varga
Co-Founder, Senior Evaluator
Krisztina Varga is a quantitative researcher and data analyst in the social and international development fields. Ms. Varga has gathered her experience from across Europe, Southern-Africa, Israel and Palestine, through working for foundations, bi- and multi-lateral donor organisations (the European Commission and the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ), as well as civil society organisations. She has researched issues of social inclusion, poverty reduction, employment promotion, social entrepreneurship, good governance, health and hygiene, gender, access to justice and more. In addition to her practical work, Ms. Varga taught at the Hebrew University's Glocal Community Development Master's programme.