The MEL Library Project

On October 1, 2025, ImpactMapper launched a free Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Resources database to support M&E professionals in identifying useful and practical frameworks, guides and new tools to continue improving their analytical skills.

At the launch of the database, there were 200 free resources created by ImpactMapper and multiple external sources with a detailed taxonomy to make the database more searchable according to user's needs including thematic areas, type of focus, formats, year of publication and profile.

We will continue to add to the database throughout this year and ask for your help in identifying other resources to add.

We hope that you find the database useful!

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Subscribe here to request free access to the database.

Skill Building Workshops for Impact Tracking

Building Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Systems

LENGTH: 2.5 hours

Our training provides an overview for your staff or your staff or partner organizations on how to make your Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) work for you. We share sharing tips, best practices, and participatory methodologies on how to track your impact and ensure you are getting daat that helps you learn and make decisions. We will also impart the technical know-how in setting up a MEL system that has a gender lens and is diverse and inclusive.

Creating a Data Culture

LENGTH: 2.5 HOURS

This workshop supports your organization in creating strategic moments to bring different datastreams into internal conversations. This could involve setting up discussions around grantmaking data, board reports, annual reports, learning briefs, and other activities. The goal is to develop an action plan so that the data you collect is used throughout the year to track trends, help you make better decisions, improve practices and share learnings so you can increase the impact of the changes you are making.

Workshop Series to Define your Impact Metrics

LENGTH: 6-8 HOURS

Organizations need more than traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) to track their social impact. In order to ensure that your organization’s impact is meaningful, we lead interactive training sessions to help you define your impact, theory of change, stories of change and key impact metrics along with other KPIs.

This provides your team with the right metrics to measure and communicate your key areas of progress.

Workshop 1: Identifying the Problem, the Goals and Value Add to the Ecosystem (2 hours)

Workshop 2: Identifying Desired Outcomes and Ecosystem Level Changes (2 hours)

Workshop 3: Building your Impact Narrative and Communicating to Diverse Audiences (2 hours)

Capacity Building Trainings for Partners or Grantees

Impact Reporting Training Program for Grantees

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

This 10-week facilitated training course builds grantees' capacities on data analysis for impact reporting and communication in an interactive and engaging way. At the end of the program, each grantee will have their own impact report to share.

Who is this for: For grantees that have a dedicated MEL framework, like a theory of change or logframe metrics and data they need to analyze on an annual basis, this training program is for them. Grantees will add their data to ImpactMapper and analyze it for an annual impact report.
See pdf for a full overview of the training program.

Other Training

Training-Workshops on Gender and Diversity