Communications - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Alignment
Data you can stand behind makes the difference between a nice story and an impactful one.
This service ensures your narrative is grounded in evidence and your measurement system is designed to support the story you want to tell. Delivered in collaboration with a senior measurement and data specialist, this offering bridges strategy, storytelling, and impact measurement.
What this partnership can include:
Narrative and MEL Alignment Review: A deep dive into your existing data, indicators, and reporting frameworks, with clear recommendations to align measurement with your strategic narrative and communications strategy.
Strategic MEL System Design: Design and set-up of end-to-end MEL systems grounded in proven methodologies — focused on outcomes, learning, and long-term impact, not just activity tracking.
Cost Effectiveness Analysis: Analysis of program costs relative to outcomes achieved to highlight where resources deliver the greatest impact and enable clear, credible communication of value for money to donors and partners.
Data Quality Assessments: Independent verification and strengthening of data reliability, consistency, and accuracy so you can communicate results with confidence.
Digital MEL Solutions: Design and training on digital data collection and management tools to improve efficiency, quality, and accessibility of information
Impact Evaluation Support: Field-based data collection and evaluation using mixed-methods approaches to capture both quantitative results and human outcomes.
MEL Capacity Building: Training and hands-on support to equip your team to sustain high-quality measurement beyond the engagement.