“Yikes! You Mean Crises Aren’t One-off?”: How Critical Moments Reflection Helped Us See the Trend-line

Everyone working in the social impact sector takes complexity as a given (or should). But what happens when complexity morphs into full-blown crisis? What are the implications for MEL when, on top of a system’s chronic disease, there is a heart attack to contend with? This blog shares the experience of WomenStrong’s outcome evaluation (October […]

Mentoring in evaluation & communication: A Trojan horse for adaptive management

Context and MEL challenge Designing Evaluation and Communication for Impact (DECI) is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Ottawa). Our partners are researchers in the global South committed to bridging research to policy in dynamic topics. Their applied research efforts are complex and evolving, and require a developmental MEL support. Since 2009 DECI […]