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.
Feel free to use my work, but please be responsible and credit me. When I’ve shared others’ work, I’ve attributed them (as above). For example, I use The Barefoot Guide’s incredible collection of artists for each post’s title images. Everything else you see here is my intellectual property and is copyrighted.
Get started by either using the search bar below or picking a category. If you don’t see what you need, let me know! You can also subscribe to my newsletter for more resources, tools, and workbooks.
Latest Posts
-
Resource: Developing a Theory of Change
An oldie but a goodie, this guide from Keystone walks you through a Theory of Change and its uses, and how to develop a clear and representative vision of success.
-
Resource: Evaluating Systems Change
A useful article by Donna Loveridge to help think through evaluating systems change, in particular in narrowing down the right set of questions. It’s important to find the right combination of questions in systems change that are simple and straightforward enough, but will also give you a deeper sense of what to then do about
-
Resource: Ten Tips for Case Studies
I came across this resource on ten tips for putting together great case studies. It focusses on ethical practices as well, like making sure the person about whom you’re writing the case study is cared for and treated with respect.
-
Resource: Passing the Buck – The Economics of Localising International Assistance
The Share Trust and Warande Advisory Centre released this study recently, which looks at what would happen if even a portion of the global aid budget went to local and intermediary structures instead of global ones. The results are precisely what you’d expect – more effective, 32% more cost efficient, and a much more empowering
-
Factsheet: The Ladder of Change
A factsheet on the ladder of change, explaining what you should expect to see at each step.
-
September and October (General Updates)
I wanted to share some exciting updates from the past two months and what I’m looking forward to in the final two months. This is always a slower time of year, which I love. Some projects are ending, and some new ones for next year are taking shape. I enjoy this time to reflect and
-
The Ladder of Change
How to use a ladder of change to enhance your project’s PMEL.
-
The Difference between a Methodology and a Method
Using a project evaluation as an example, let’s review the differences between a methodology and a method and how to use them differently.
-
Checklist: Methodology Vs. Methods
A checklist to help you differentiate between a methodology and method, and ensure that both components are thoroughly covered in your research plan.
-
Narrative Change and the Dictionary
I recently listened to a really interesting episode of ‘The Indicator’ on how dictionary editors find new words. It inspired me to think about how we could better observe narrative change. A word gets added similarly to how we measure lagging indicators: it happens after the word has been used long enough to justify being