Evidence and Learning Community of Practice – Getting Started with MEL 360
The Evidence and Learning Community of Practice will host “Getting Started with MEL 360“ online on 11 June.
Adopting systems-oriented approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) raises hard questions: Where do you start? What does it require of your team and your organisation? How can MEL 360, a comprehensive online tool for systems MEL, be put to work in a philanthropic setting?
This session was built in direct response to those questions, which many members of the community have been raising. It will include a participatory exercise using the MEL 360 Systems-Oriented MEL Principles Checklist, a chance to take stock of where your practice already is and explore where the gaps lie. The session will offer a practical introduction to MEL 360 and to the entry points most relevant for foundations: where to start, which tools and concepts create traction early, and how to navigate the wider resource base.
The agenda will include two practitioner accounts, one on what moving toward systems MEL looks like from the funder side looking at what MEL 360 has opened up, what hasn’t translated easily, and what remains genuinely unresolved; and one on what integrating MEL 360 into large, multi-country integrated programmes has involved in practice.
The session will also feature a participatory exercise exploring what MEL 360 would need to look like for foundations to find it truly useful, the reflections of which will shape another later session.
Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of where their practice sits relative to systems MEL principles, entry points that can be acted on, and a picture of the organisational conditions, team culture, internal buy-in, ways of working, that tend to help.
Contact
