An 8-week online course to innovate and deepen your approaches to social impact
This course involves critically evaluating our place in society and how change happens beyond the buzzwords. It’s for anyone in social impact and M&E who wants to build a system and tools that work together – and that are responsive and community-led. We’ll discuss how to articulate and then practice our values.
It’s for M&E practitioners at all levels, and at any organisation—implementer, funder, intermediary, or institutional. You may be involved in strategy, programme, or project design. Maybe M&E is part of your role, or you’re involved in communications, knowledge management, or fundraising.
RADIQUAL is a research framework, methodology, and values guide I developed in 2018. Find out more more about it here – including the story behind its name!
You should have a good understanding of M&E ideas and systems and some experience implementing them. This experience has shown you something is missing, and you want to find better ways to do your work that are responsive to your communities’ needs and represent your values.
You will learn dozens of new tools, approaches, and methods. The day after the course, you’ll leave with 3 priority ones you can start using immediately. You don’t need leadership or governance approval either – you can use them in your own work, from small weekly tasks to larger, programme-level data collection and analysis
RADIQUAL M&E is highly interactive and full of practical methods and approaches.
You will leave with at least 3 ideas to start implementing immediately.
What It Includes
We will start with a critical review of existing knowledge and frameworks. Through interactive sessions and group work, we’ll consider how to adapt them to our needs or start from scratch and propose completely different alternatives. During the course, you’ll get:
🌿 50+ practical tools, workbooks, and guides I designed specifically for the course*
🌿 2 detailed action plans for you or your organisation with at least 3 ideas*
🌿 personalised online space for your reflections*
🌿 bespoke support to learn in the best way for your needs*
🌿 a shared manifesto that you’ll write with coursemates*
🌿 critical reviews of existing knowledge and frameworks*
🌿 26 ideas to challenge current norms and practices and promote innovation*
🌿 daily interactive sessions, group, and individual guided work*
🌿 reflections to help your learning journey continue in the long term*
🌿 slides and other session materials
🌿 a detailed participant handbook with readings, reflections, and ideas to support your learning
🌿 a library of over 100 multimedia resources and tools
🌿 dozens of peers to support you on your journey
🌿a verified certificate, hosted by The SMC Group, to display on your CV and LinkedIn
* Some materials are only available in the full version of the course (The Roadmap)
Who it’s For
There are 2 versions of the course, depending on your experience with M&E. If you’re just starting out, switching careers, or just want to dip your toes, I recommend The Foundations.
If you’re already practicing M&E and looking for specific ways to make your work more responsive to your communities’ needs, and design work that represents your values, The Roadmap is for you.
Cohorts are small, with a maximum of 4 participants. This allows me to work closely with each of you so I can provide you with support relevant to your needs. It also allows for you all to engage deeper as a cohort, with more meaningful exercises and interactions. You’ll get a chance to know each other well.
Structure and Pricing
As part of my commitment to inclusivity, please reflect carefully on your resources and select the right tier for your means, current engagement, and aspirations in social impact. This is our collaborative effort towards inclusive access. I offer a tiered pricing structure, payment plans, group discounts, and scholarships.
The Foundations (2 sessions)
For students, those starting in social impact, moving from another sector, or looking for networking opportunities. You may be exploring foundational concepts and theories; this course can support you to start your journey.
Scholarships are available for the Foundations course (max. 2 per cohort). I accept a waived fee for my labour, so they are given on a first-come-first-served basis.
€100 / ₹10,500 / $110 (US)
The Roadmap (8 sessions) Tier 1 [Practitioners]
For those with some experience looking to deepen their engagement and expand their practices. You may be involved in social impact projects or innovations, creating new solutions, or already implementing some of these ideas.
This course will provide you with personalised frameworks, tools, and practical support to refine your existing work. You will also receive new strategies and ideas.
I will also support you with your specific projects and work. You will get one-on-one support during the course. I will also help you implement these ideas after the course ends, on your RADIQUAL journey.
€800 / ₹84,700 / $920 (US)
The Roadmap (8 sessions) Tier 2 [Leaders]
For senior professionals, project managers, team leads, and government and institutional representatives. Your work can help influence outcomes within your teams, organisations, and partnerships.
You may be a leader who can drive change within our ecosystem. You may also be involved in advocacy, policy, and cross-sector collaborations.
I will help develop the skills you need to enact systems-level changes that can help shape our sector. This includes mentorship and individual coaching during the course, and support implementing the RADIQUAL journey after the course ends.
€1,000/ ₹105,900 / $1,150 (US)
About Me
I’m Sanjukta (Sun-yook-ta), an M&E and DEI consultant from South India. Over the past 20 years, my work has supported women’s organisations, participatory funders, human rights groups, UN agencies, and INGOs to strengthen their M&E work. I also have a background in journalism, activism, and ethical fashion.
I designed this course to share practical ways to shift power and mainstream innovative approaches to design, evaluate, and learn from our work. Through this course, we’ll investigate how we can do better and challenge ‘how it’s done’.
RADIQUAL M&E is being used in these leading organisations
Logistics
2026 dates will be announced based on pre-registered interest.
Language and Delivery
The session will be delivered online, so a stable internet connection and, ideally, a computer with a webcam would be helpful. It will include audio-visual presentations, visual tools, and audio-visual media. We will speak English, and the course will be delivered in English.
Interaction and Accessibility
I will stop often to ask how you are doing, how the course materials are landing with you, and for your reflections. Please come ready to share your ideas and findings in whatever media suits you, discuss your opinions, and bring any relevant anecdotes to the course. During registration, I will ask about your accessibility needs and will do whatever I can to ensure your comfort.
Course Outline
Day 1: Foundations
- Shared values and norms for the course
- History of oppression
- History of the humanitarian/development/aid sector
- Role of power
- Role of coloniality, patriarchy, and systems of oppression in our daily and professional lives
- Exercise: RADIQUAL Power Analysis
- Outline key approaches
Day 2: Power and RADIQUAL
- Role of power today
- The White Saviour Industrial Complex
- Traditional science, representation, and the role of innovation in social impact
- The RADIQUAL Manifesto
- The RADIQUAL Framework
- The RADIQUAL Methodology
- Exercise: Learning Journey
Day 3: Participatory and Intersectional Frameworks
- Exercise: Shared Definitions
- Detailed overview of 4 participatory M&E frameworks
- Participatory thinkers and approaches
- How to apply them: tools and methods
- Tips and how tos for applying participatory approaches
- Detailed overview of 5 intersectional M&E frameworks
- Intersectional thinkers and approaches
- How to apply them: tools and methods
- Tips and how tos for applying intersectional approaches
Day 4: Practicing Participatory and Intersectional Approaches
- Detailed overview of 10 tools and methods for participatory approaches
- Detailed overview of 10 tools and methods for intersectional methods
- Group and individual work applying both to 5 elements of a PMEL tool
- Exercise: Combining Approaches
- Reflections on practicing these ideas in your work
- Exercise: Preparation of Personal Toolkits
Day 5: Decolonial and Inclusive Frameworks
- Exercise: Shared Definitions
- Detailed overview of 5 decolonial M&E frameworks
- Decolonial thinkers and approaches
- How to apply them: tools and methods
- Tips and how tos for applying decolonial approaches
- Detailed overview of 4 inclusive M&E frameworks
- Inclusive thinkers and approaches
- How to apply them: tools and methods
- Tips and how tos for applying inclusive approaches
Day 6: Practicing Decolonial and Inclusive Approaches
- Detailed overview of 10 tools and methods for decolonial approaches
- Detailed overview of 10 tools and methods for inclusive methods
- Group and individual work applying both to 4 elements of a PMEL tool
- Exercise: combining decolonial and inclusive approaches
- Reflections on practicing these ideas in your work
- Exercise: Preparation of Personal Toolkits
Day 7: Action Planning and What’s Next?
- Shared challenges and opportunities
- Strategies to overcome them
- Manifesto for applying RADIQUAL
- Exercise: Shared RADIQUAL Manifesto
- Exercise: Action Planning
- Individual roadmap
- Individual coaching and mentorship
We will develop individual or shared action plans to help us implement what we’ve learned and strengthen our PMEL work. We will create a group roadmap with ideas and goals and an accountability mechanism to keep ourselves on track to improve.
Day 8: Action Planning and Holding Power to Account
- Visioning for our work
- Milestones for individual and organisational practices
- Exercise: Action Planning
- Holding power to account
- Exercise: What we Want Next
- Inspiration and ideation for the path ahead
We will develop individual or shared action plans to help us implement what we’ve learned and strengthen our PMEL work. We will create a group roadmap with ideas and goals and an accountability mechanism to keep ourselves on track to improve.
