Learning better together

merl supports civil society organisations achieve their social justice missions through  monitoring, evaluation, research, learning and fundraising services.

Our collaborative approach helps organisations generate an evidence-base to improve planning, decision-making and the impact of your work.

By combining our participatory methods with a human-rights based approach, we provide our clients with a people-centred, feminist, anti-racist approach to learning, documenting results and evidence-based advocacy.

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Our services

  • We help organisations build monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning frameworks, plans and tools.

    We facilitate learning and reflection sessions.

    We support organisations to analyse data collected with the people they are working with and for.

    We undertake qualitative and mixed methods research to explore issues and challenges to support our clients and their audiences to learn more.

  • We take a systems-thinking approach to produce quality people-centred evaluations that informs future programming.

  • Facilitate Theory of Change processes, to support organisations or teams think about what they want to achieve, how they plan to achieve it, and who needs to be involved to make it happen.

    We facilitate strategic reviews creating room for learning and reflection.

    We also support fundraising reviews, scoping and strategy development.

  • We work with organisations and people with lived experience of the social injustice to understand problems and facilitate processes to identify potential solutions.

    We are experts in co-production, facilitating and supporting knowledge holders to analyse and produce research and other knowledge products.

Our Focus Areas

Equality and rights for people forced to move

Building strong
civil society

Social and climate justice

Some of the great organisations we’ve worked with

What we are up to

Strategise and learn together:

Facilitating and co-developing CEPI’s (the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) Theory of Change and revising their results framework.

Learn together:

Learning partner to the Greater Manchester Step Change Consortium, collaborating with eleven organisations and Experts by Experience to facilitate, to facilitate and support learning, reflection, adaptations and evidence progress and challenges.

Co-production:

Co-developed an evidence-based decision-making toolkit with humanitarian innovators and Elrha to support real-time learning and evidence-based judgements.

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