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.
Our services
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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.
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We take a systems-thinking approach to produce quality people-centred evaluations that informs future programming.
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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.
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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
Social and climate justice
Who we’ve worked with
What we are up to
Theory of Change and MEL framework Development- Library For All
Destitute Asylum Seekers Service Evaluation- Refugee Survival Trust
Learning Partner - Step Change Consortium, Refugee Action