Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)

Strong M&E starts with solid frameworks. We design comprehensive monitoring and evaluation systems that link strategic objectives to measurable indicators, ensuring you can track progress and demonstrate results. 

Core Services: 

  • Results Frameworks: Comprehensive frameworks linking inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts 
  • Theory of Change & Logic Models: Articulation of causal pathways and assumptions underlying interventions 
  • Performance Measurement Frameworks: SMART indicator development, baselines, targets, and data collection plans 
  • M&E System Design: Comprehensive systems including governance, processes, tools, and capacity requirements 
  • M&E Plans: Detailed roadmaps for monitoring and evaluation activities throughout project/programme lifecycle 
  • Standard Operating Procedures: M&E protocols, templates, and guidelines for consistent implementation 
  • Risk Management Frameworks: Systems for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating implementation risks 

Sector Experience: 

  • Education and skills development 
  • Health and HIV/AIDS 
  • Climate change and disaster risk management 
  • Environment and natural resource management 
  • Gender equality and social inclusion 
  • Agriculture and food security 
  • Water and sanitation 
  • Justice and governance 
  • Social protection 

Value Proposition: Our M&E frameworks aren’t theoretical exercises—they’re practical tools designed for Caribbean contexts, balancing international standards with local capacity and resources. 

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We conduct rigorous, independent evaluations that generate credible findings and actionable recommendations. Our evaluations meet international standards while remaining contextually relevant and stakeholder-responsive. 

Core Services: 

  • Formative Evaluations: Mid-term assessments examining implementation progress, efficiency, and emerging lessons 
  • Summative Evaluations: End-of-project/programme evaluations assessing overall effectiveness, impact, and sustainability 
  • Impact Evaluations: Rigorous assessments of long-term effects and attribution using quasi-experimental or experimental designs 
  • Outcome Evaluations: Assessment of intermediate results and progress toward longer-term impacts 
  • Process Evaluations: Analysis of implementation approaches, systems, and operational effectiveness 
  • Real-Time Evaluations: Rapid assessments during crises or fast-moving contexts (disasters, humanitarian response) 
  • Meta-Evaluations: Synthesis of multiple evaluations to identify patterns and strategic insights 

Evaluation Approaches: 

  • OECD-DAC criteria (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability) 
  • Gender-responsive evaluation 
  • Human rights-based evaluation 
  • Participatory and utilization-focused evaluation 
  • Theory-based evaluation 
  • Developmental evaluation for adaptive programming 

Value Proposition: Our evaluations provide honest, constructive feedback that helps organizations learn and improve—we’re critical friends, not critics. 

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Disasters require specialized monitoring approaches that can track rapidly evolving needs and response effectiveness in real-time. We bring expertise in humanitarian M&E adapted to Caribbean SIDS contexts. 

Core Services: 

  • Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) Support: Technical assistance for multi-sector damage, loss, and recovery needs assessment 
  • Real-Time Response Monitoring: Rapid data collection and analysis systems for tracking relief delivery and coverage 
  • Humanitarian Response Dashboards: Interactive platforms showing beneficiaries reached, funding flows, and geographic coverage 
  • After-Action Reviews: Systematic evaluation of response effectiveness, coordination, and lessons learned 
  • Recovery M&E Frameworks: Monitoring systems for tracking build-back-better progress across sectors 
  • Disaster Risk Reduction M&E: Frameworks for tracking DRR investments, preparedness, and resilience building 
  • Community Voice & Accountability: Systems capturing affected population perspectives and complaints/response mechanisms 

Value Proposition: We understand Caribbean disaster contexts—small island vulnerabilities, limited institutional capacity, and the need for rapid yet rigorous M&E that supports accountability while not overwhelming response teams. 

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Sustainable M&E requires local capacity. We don’t just do M&E for you—we build your team’s ability to design, implement, and use monitoring and evaluation systems effectively. 

Core Services: 

  • M&E Fundamentals Training: Introduction to monitoring and evaluation concepts, frameworks, and methodologies 
  • Results-Based Management (RBM): RBM principles, logical frameworks, and Theory of Change development 
  • Indicator Development Workshops: SMART indicators, baselines, targets, and data collection planning 
  • Data Quality Assurance Training: Ensuring reliability, validity, and integrity of M&E data 
  • Evaluation Methods Training: Quantitative and qualitative approaches, sampling, data analysis, and reporting 
  • Specialized Training: Gender-responsive M&E, disability-inclusive M&E, climate M&E, etc. 
  • Institutional M&E Systems: Building organizational M&E capacity beyond individual skills 

Training Delivery Modalities: 

  • In-person workshops (2-5 days) 
  • Virtual/online training with interactive sessions 
  • Blended learning (online + in-person) 
  • On-the-job coaching and mentoring 
  • Learning-by-doing technical assistance 
  • Community of practice facilitation 

Institutional Strengthening: 

  • M&E unit establishment and staffing 
  • M&E system design and implementation support 
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) development 
  • M&E policy and strategy formulation 
  • Quality assurance framework establishment 
  • Organizational learning mechanisms 

Value Proposition: Our training is practical and contextualized—participants leave with skills they can immediately apply and tools they can actually use in their Caribbean contexts, not just theoretical knowledge.

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In dynamic environments, waiting for annual evaluations isn’t enough. We design real-time monitoring systems that provide continuous feedback loops enabling adaptive management and course correction. 

Core Services: 

  • Real-Time Monitoring Systems: Continuous data collection and analysis for immediate decision-making 
  • Performance Dashboards: Live tracking of key performance indicators with alerts for targets at risk 
  • Early Warning Systems: Monitoring indicators that signal emerging problems or opportunities 
  • Adaptive Management Frameworks: Structures and processes for using monitoring data to adjust strategies and tactics 
  • Feedback Loop Mechanisms: Systems ensuring monitoring insights reach decision-makers and drive action 
  • Participatory Monitoring: Engagement of beneficiaries and stakeholders in ongoing monitoring processes 
  • Mobile Data Collection: Technology-enabled field data collection for rapid reporting 

Technical Approaches: 

  • Mobile data collection tools (ODK, KoboToolbox, CommCare) 
  • Cloud-based data platforms for real-time reporting 
  • Automated data quality checks 
  • Dashboard visualization (Power BI, Tableau) 
  • SMS/WhatsApp reporting for low-connectivity contexts 
  • GIS-based monitoring for geographic tracking 

Value Proposition: We design monitoring systems that are simple enough to be sustainable but sophisticated enough to be useful—appropriate technology matched to Caribbean capacity and infrastructure. 

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