Participatory Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation

Join the live online training on November 13, 2025 at 5 p.m. CET

Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems should be rooted in and reflect the communities needs and interests to improve inclusive programming and impact.

Participatory methods can be integrated at any stage--from program design and planning, implementation, and post implementation.

LENGTH: 2.5 hours

If you are a MEL professional wondering…

What the benefits are of ensuring diverse participation in your organization’s MEL process

How to increase the engagement of communities in a theory of change, evaluation, or learning process

What specific participatory methods you can use under what conditions

How to design participatory MEL

This course is for you!

In the live online training facilitated by Dr. Alexandra Pittman, you will:

Discover how to measure impact with a strong focus on participatory methods and storytelling
Learn 8 basic participatory methods and best practices
Gain practical experience developing participatory tools for impact tracking and MEL in a programme or organizational context with experts from the ImpactMapper team

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.

Our MEL training is highly recommended by previous participants.
Some testimonials include:

We are so excited about this and know this has been very useful for both the NHRF's team and also our grantee partners!
Thank you!!

Sandra Petersen

Executive Director at Norwegian Human Rights Fund

The course was a really great overview of how to make the MEL process work for you, I would highly recommend it to any NGO that has to work with donors!

Madeleine

International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN)

The presentation was very clear, and the exercises summarized complex topics making them accessible. I left with new tools to share with my team and the communities we work with.

Sara Méndez

Codigo DH, - Mexico

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

LENGTH: 6 HOURS

The focus of each month’s activities is the following:

Gender, Race and Intersectionality Basics
Gender and Power Analysis
Stereotypes around representation of gender, race, and identity
How do we become more transformative in advocacy?

Forecasting the organization that we want to be in terms of diversity and inclusion

Strategizing: How do we get there?

Diversity goals and commitments

Individual commitments
Organizational commitments and action steps

Participatory Methods for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning