Developing a MEL plan for United for Global Mental Health

In late 2022, United for Global Mental Health (UnitedGMH) contracted Transformative Solutions to provide recommendations on synthesising key indicators of success for the organisation to use for 2023 and beyond, along with a plan for implementing and monitoring those indicators. To deliver on this, our team created a comprehensive plan for organisational Monitoring, Evaluation and […]

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Creating a MEL Framework for Development Initiatives

In 2020, we were commissioned to support Development Initiatives to create a new Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework to complement and apply to their new 10 year strategy. The collaboration involved developing new tools, templates and approaches for how DI’s many, data driven projects and programmes can organise themselves around established theories of change,

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Evaluating the BASICS project

Starting in 2020, Transformative Solutions collaborated with Internews to conduct a midterm and a final evaluation of the project Building Analytical and Support Infrastructure for Critical Security Tools (BASICS). The project took two well-known problems in the open source internet freedom community – sustainability challenges and lack of diversity – and combined them in order

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Capacity Development and Transforming Practice

The importance of capacity development cannot be stressed enough. At a basic level, it is a vital step in helping end users to understand the potential and uses of satellite enabled solutions, to understand why a particular service is necessary and why this is an efficient way to solve their problems. At a more technical level, it is the missing piece that allows in-country stakeholders to use the solutions developed independently, sustainably, and efficiently. In-country partners are potentially able to maintain and even further develop tools to meet their own needs in a self-sufficient manner with the right types of capacity development.

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Meaningful Partnerships for Impact

Meaningful partnerships are based on a recognition of mutual benefit through working and learning together, and active engagement throughout the project. While having the right partners helps open doors in-country, when partnerships are reduced to sporadic engagement and consultation it misses the potential benefits each partner brings to the project.

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Using Satellite Data to Monitor the UN SDGs

Traditionally, monitoring global goals such as the SDGs is a complex process, requiring intensive ground level data collection, computation and many levels of aggregations. However, in recent years, many development projects have begun to explore the use of satellites to monitor progress against the UN SDGs. Projects have been developed using satellites to monitor air and water pollution levels, to monitor the growth of refugee camps, population trends, urban development and more. In this way, satellite information can help us to easily, remotely and often cost-efficiently report on changes to UN SDG indicators over time.

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Building Global Capacity on Open Data

In 2014, Transformative Solutions was invited to evaluate the Worldwide Web Foundation’s Open Data in Developing Countries project. As part of the Foundation’s commitment to openness and shared learning, we were asked to reflect on some of the findings, particularly around research as an approach to open data capacity building. Building capacity for a newly

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