Support to develop your expertise around PMEL with creative examples and practical tips for adding these to your existing processes. I use participatory, decolonial, intersectional, and inclusive approaches.
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Checklist: Strategic Planning 101
A foundational set of four questions you should ask at the start of your strategic cycle.
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Resource: Ten Efforts to Decolonise Aid
I found this article by Heba Aly from The New Humanitarian that compiles ten ideas and existing practices to decolonise aid. It’s a good place to start for people who aren’t sure what this ‘trend’ means and would look like for them. You’ll also find links to useful frameworks such as the Start Network/Aid Re-Imagined…
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July and August (General Updates)
I hope you’re doing well and had a great summer! Being fortunate enough to live in Barcelona I enjoyed lots of sun, sea, and sangria. I wanted to reach out, share some exciting updates from the past two months, and what I’m looking forward to in September and October. In July, I was invited to…
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Resource: Types of Discrimination and Evaluating Them
The differences between sequential multiple discrimination, additive multiple discrimination, and intersectional discrimination.
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How we can better decolonise and shift power in our sector
This guest blog post was written for NPC, as follow up to their online seminar for trustees on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in evaluation. The seminar, at which I was a panelist, explored what ‘good evidence’ looks like, what the barriers in our existing evaluation practices are likely to be, and practical changes that…
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Resource: Drawing in Evaluation Deep Dive
I came across this great post on drawing as a technique in evaluation, from AND Implementation in Canada. Jennica and Maya both use creative methodologies and I really like hearing about their work with art as an approach to evaluation. Plus their blog is fun to read! In this post, they discuss why it’s a…
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Resource: Governance Guide for INGOs
Bond released this governance guide for international NGOs, for both trustees and staff of organisations. In the current context, where NGOs are increasingly challenged about their legitimacy and their position in the development ecosystem, the trustee role and the question “what does good governance look like?” has never been more complex. How does a board…
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Applying Our Equitable Evaluation Principles
Continuing from last week’s post, I wanted to share some further information about what these equitable evaluation principles mean to me, how I practice them, and how you can add them to your project cycles as well. Evaluations, whether for a local community initiative or an expansive developmental project, play an essential role in understanding…
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Equitable Evaluation Principles
A list of evaluation principles that guides my methodologies and practices.
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Resource: 100 Energisers
A great resource on different ways to energise groups! Yes some of these may be a little cheesy or tacky, but as a participant in many a Clap Exchange let me tell you – they work! I use these during both in-person and Zoom training and workshops, and there’s lots of room to get creative…
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