“How do we prove impact when we can’t safely collect baseline data?” That’s the question that protection teams everywhere are grappling with.When your work involves survivors of gender-based violence or communities affected by conflict, traditional monitoring tools can feel not just inappropriate, but unsafe. Yet donors still need evidence. Practitioners still need to learn what’s working. So how do you measure outcomes ethically, credibly, and compassionately? Turns out, it

Short-term project cycles demand quick results, but real change takes years. The pressure to “show impact” within 12 months often leads to shallow reporting. Here’s how M&E professionals can demonstrate meaningful progress, even when the funding clock is ticking.

Learn how to transform jargon-heavy reports into persuasive, inclusive tools for change. This post shares practical tips fromfeaturing storytelling, AI tools, and design strategies, to help development professionals communicate with clarity and impact

Are intermediate outcomes helping your programme or just confusing your team? Here is my take on when to ditch the complexity.

Many projects begin without a solid baseline. Maybe the data was never collected. Maybe it was incomplete, rushed, or poorly designed. Still, donors expect reporting. Communities expect accountability. And you’re expected to show progress. This webinar explores how to monitor change when you’re starting from scratch, and how to do it with credibility, clarity, and care.

The most impactful development projects aren't just technically sound, they're inclusive by design. Yet traditional stakeholder analysis often perpetuates the very exclusions our work aims to address. This webinar explores how to map power, identify invisible voices, and design genuine participation from the start.

Not all meaningful change comes with tidy indicators. Some of the most powerful results in development like empowerment, mindset shifts, community ownership, and changes in social norms are deeply significant but difficult to measure. This webinar dives into the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, a participatory, story-based approach to evaluation that captures impact through the lens of lived experience.

Some of the most meaningful results in development like behaviour change, empowerment, policy influence, or shifts in norms, don’t come with tidy metrics or linear paths. This webinar explores strategies and frameworks to evaluate outcomes that don’t fit neatly in a logframe. You’ll walk away with methods to capture change as it really happens, even when it's messy, emergent, or unexpected.

Writing outcome statments like 'increased awareness' works for a logframe. It does not for Outcome Harvesting (OH). Learn why OH demands a different approach and how to write clear, verifiable outcome statements that hold up under scrutiny.

Outcome Harvesting (OH) is a powerful approach for monitoring and evaluation, especially in complex, dynamic environments where change isn’t always linear. This article offers practical lessons learned from real organisations that have used OH to track advocacy, capacity-building, and social change efforts. Whether you’re new to OH or trying to refine your practice, this guide helps you avoid common mistakes like treating OH as a reporting checkbox or skipping substantiation.