PMEL Clinic

You have drafted a logical framework, or a theory of change, and you need someone to check it? You are struggling to find progress indicators that meet both your needs and your funder’s expectations? You need someone to bounce off ideas on your monitoring and learning systems?

My PMEL clinic can help! I facilitate not only evaluation, but also planning, monitoring and learning in international cooperation and other contexts.

Feel free to get in touch for an online or face-to-face conversation for a first diagnosis!

My PMEL clinic is here to keep your planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning systems healthy.

I offer both punctual troubleshooting as well as longer-term support. You can use the PME clinic for quick, individual support in a one-on-one online session. But I can also come to your organisation for more thorough diagnosis and support, e.g., to strengthen your overall systems.

A short intervention can fix that indicator or data collection routine that does not quite work the way it should. Or, a quick, diagnostic intervention can identify where your results framework could be made clearer and more robust.

A longer process could accompany your organisation or a specific portfolio or programme programme in developing and refining its systems, for better evidence for transparent decision-making, and longer-term organisational learning. I have also managed and quality-assured evaluations on behalf of diverse clients.

For those who work in German development cooperation: I am a trained user of GIZ’s systems approaches-inspired Capacity WORKS model for systems-informed cooperation. My practice draws from a variety of sources, for instance in theory of change and gender-responsive, inclusive strategy development.

In addition to the PMEL clinic, I deliver PMEL training, tailored to the participants‘ specific needs or based on readily available packages (e.g., any standard training developed by your organisation).

Clients in PMEL training have included, among others, GIZ (German Cooperation), UN Women and Transparency International, face-to-face and online. I have also designed and delivered bespoke PMEL training and coaching for individual professionals.

PME stands for “planning, monitoring and evaluation”. There are many acronyms around these activities. Some include the terms „learning“. A popular example is MEL, which stands for “monitoring, evaluation, and learning”.