What we do
We help our clients work through their challenges, navigating complexity to create real and lasting change
Everyone is busy, there is so much work to do, it is not always easy to find time to reflect on practice, gather data and take time to really understand what it means, and then communicate in an accessible way. Sometimes donor requirements mean that MEL becomes a reporting exercise.
merl understands this, works with you to find practical solutions to help you to monitor, evaluate and learn. We can help you connect the dots between programme development, the change you are working towards to achieve, fundraising and understanding your impact.
We exist as a learning partner to:
Learning Together
We are a learning partner, acting as a critical friend, facilitating and supporting teams and organisations on their learning journeys.
We help organisations build monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning frameworks, plans and tools.
We facilitate learning and reflection sessions.
We support organisations to analyse data collected with the people they are working with and for.
We provide MEL mentoring and tailored training packages.
We undertake participatory qualitative research to explore issues and challenges to support our clients and their audiences to learn more.
Strategise Together
Facilitate Theory of Change processes, to support organisations or teams think about what they want to achieve, how they plan to achieve it, and who needs to be involved to make it happen.
We facilitate strategic reviews creating room for learning and reflection.
We support fundraising reviews, scoping and strategy development.
Evaluate
We take a systems-thinking and feminist approach to produce high quality people-centred evaluations that informs future programming.
We use mixed methods approaches including outcome harvesting, most significant change and outcome mapping alongside more traditional qualitative and quantitative methods.
We undertake formative, summative, and developmental evaluations.
Research and Knowledge co-production
We work with organisations and people with lived experience of the social injustice to understand problems and facilitate processes to identify potential solutions.
We are experts in co-production.
We facilitate and support knowledge holders to analyse and produce research, evaluations and other learning products through participatory action research methods and sense-making processes.
Our Focus Areas
Building strong civil society
Equality and rights for people forced to move
Social and climate justice