What’s in your MEL toolkit? In this blog, we unpack key insights from Clear Horizon’s Ripple Effect webinar, where MEL experts Dr Jess Dart, Bardie Barclay-Sutton, and Jessica Suares share practical tools and techniques – from story-based methods like Most Significant Change to participatory platforms like Miro – that make evaluation more inclusive, adaptive, and impactful.
Who decides what is credible? So much of international development research is still governed by an unspoken hierarchy of knowledge—where Western academic methods are seen as rigorous, and everything else is measured against that standard.
This article explores how grant makers can approach MEL through the lens of agency and offers some ways to consciously foster a greater sense of agency in grantees.
The story of Merri Creek felt particularly relevant to those focused on transformative environmental change, and I hoped it would illustrate that MEL is about so much more than just counting outputs and writing reports.
As we wrap up another great year, we asked our colleagues about what stood out to them in 2024. Here’s what they said!
“Everyone should be doing Theory of Change” says Bethany Hanson, Principal Consultant at Clear Horizon, when asked about her recent masterclass ‘What is your theory of change? Designing high impact programs in a changing world’ at AdaptNSW Forum 2024.
Data and Insights Lead Ethel Karskens spoke on AI at the 2024 AES Conference. She talked about context, data quality and… potato chips? Read more…
At AES 24, Katrina Barnes will present on work she conducted at Oxfam, and Oxfam’s journey to decolonise its knowledge and evaluation processes. Read about it in this article!
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