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.
You can download and start using everything today. These are practical tools for everyone. When I began my career, I couldn’t find the resources I was looking for at a reasonable price, written well, or informed by the real world and all its complexities. I want to correct that. PMEL is not one-size-fits-all, and that’s part of what makes it so interesting.
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The Language of Identity aka why I’m not a WoC
This post has taken me a long time to write since it took me a while to figure out my discomfort about being called BIPOC, WoC, and PoC. Originally, I thought my dismissal of those terms was because of their American roots and context. I also don’t like that it’s another abbreviation in an industry…
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Checklist: Research Questions
A checklist to help you write research questions for your project or evaluation.
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Resource: Participatory Methods and Tools for M&E
Following on from last month’s post on ActivityInfo, here’s another great resource on participatory methods and tools for M&E, also written by Naomi Falkenburg. Here, she shares a list of participatory approaches and tools, with links for you to learn more and guiding questions you can use in your journey to apply them. I hope…
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Factsheet: Targets vs. Indicators
When preparing a project proposal, or at the planning stage, what’s the best way to distinguish between a target and an indicator? How are they related? Here’s a handy infographic that can help you guide the process with your partners!
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Human-Centred Design 101
What human-centred design is, why it’s important, and how your projects can benefit from it.
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Checklist: Design for Social Impact
Four principles for girl-centred design for social impact.
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Resource: Indicators for Inclusive M&E
My friend Naomi Falkenburg wrote this piece for ActivityInfo, based off a webinar and presentation on ‘Best Practices of Inclusive Monitoring and Evaluation in data collection systems’. In it, she talks about how inclusive M&E goes deep into a systemic approach to doing our work better, engaging communities, combining data methods and approaches, and integrating…
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What is a Liberatory Framework?
A primer on this approach/framework to social justice and its relevance to M&E.
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