Use insights to learn, communicate and adapt
Unlock new perspectives on impact assessment and organisational development.
Format
Facilitated Online
Course
Starting date
15 Nov 2024
7 Jul 2025
Duration
3 weeks
12 hours
Price starting from
$580
AUD
Increasing Impact through Learning
Course Outcomes
Uncover the value of strategic learning
Develop a learning and reporting strategy through a real world case study, helping you to uncover the secrets of iterative adaptation.
Maximise your communication impact
Explore visualisation approaches and apply the relevant ones to your unique context, empowering you to communicate complex data with clarity and impact.
Make reporting meaningful
Discover the transformative power of adopting a user-centric approach to reporting, ensuring your insights resonate deeply with your audience and drive meaningful action.
Build a learning culture
Uncover the benefits that strategic learning brings to your team, fostering continuous improvement and facilitating decision-making processes.
Implement a learning-focused philosophy
Dive into practical methodologies for embedding strategic learning and equip yourself with the tools to drive sustainable growth and innovation in your organisation.
Easy as one, two, three
Choose your package
Basic
$580 AUD
This package includes:
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Comprehensive course materials, tools, and interactive content
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Weekly one-hour virtual sessions led by your expert course mentor
Standard
$1,030 AUD
This package includes:
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Comprehensive course materials, tools, and interactive content
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Weekly one-hour virtual sessions led by your expert course mentor
Premium
$1,930 AUD
This package includes:
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Comprehensive course materials, tools, and interactive content
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Weekly one-hour virtual sessions led by your expert course mentor
Your end-to-end journey
Course overview
Our learners love us
I absolutely loved the course and got SO much out of it. Huge thanks to you and the team for turning this course into such a terrific online offering. We’ve reimagined and redeveloped our MEL Framework and approach, and created a whole lot of tools to support it. The course certainly gave me a really good foundation to understand what we’re doing and to lead it all.
Jess Hill
The online course was affordable and flexible. There's a bit of a family feel with the Clear Horizon Academy.It was a really positive experience and I continue to access the many resources and reasonably priced training programs being offered.
Tanya Heaney
The MEL training has transformed our approach to program evaluation for improved accountability and transparency. Highly engaging, excellent quality content delivered by lively, enormously capable professionals.
Carina Johnson
Frequently asked questions
Why learn with Clear Horizon?
For nearly two decades, we have worked with changemakers across some of the world’s best-known NFPs, NGOs, and social enterprises, such as The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Menzies Foundation, Care, and Oxfam Australia, to name a few.
We are dedicated to empowering changemakers from projects of all sizes by equipping them with practical and rigorously tested methods and knowledge. Our Complete Guide to MEL course is built on our extensive experience and is the very best place for beginner and intermediate learners to understand how the right framework, data, and approach can make all the difference in their impact work.
We are dedicated to empowering changemakers from projects of all sizes by equipping them with practical and rigorously tested methods and knowledge. Our Complete Guide to MEL course is built on our extensive experience and is the very best place for beginner and intermediate learners to understand how the right framework, data, and approach can make all the difference in their impact work.
Who is this course designed for?
- Social change leaders.
- Government and philanthropic funding managers.
- Changemakers looking to grow their skillsets.
- M&E professionals ready to incorporate learning into their evaluation practice.
- Aspiring and seasoned project evaluators.
How do your online courses work?
Each of our courses offer quality multimedia content delivered via our learning platform that can be completed anytime from any device wherever you may be. As part of offering a personalised learning experience, we have integrated a one-hour live virtual session per module. It is not a requirement to attend as we know it can be difficult to balance work/life/study, however we do encourage attendance. But don’t stress if you can’t make it, as we post recordings of the session afterwards. We also offer moderated forums encouraging learners to share their experiences and hear more from our mentors. Feedback from learners is that they have enjoyed interacting during these sessions and watch them if they can’t be in attendance. The virtual sessions are held during office hours (Australian Eastern Standard time).
How do I deepen my MEL learning?
Our Complete Guide to Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) includes all 4 courses in our MEL training. We love for our learners to participate in all courses to benefit from the full MEL experience. But if you’re only looking to brush up on specific skills or areas, we’ve designed each course to also be valuable as a stand-alone.
How will personalised coaching benefit my learning?
Opting for the standard or premium package secures one-to-one time with one of our senior experts. This time is devoted to tackling the questions you have in applying your learning to your specific context and making sure your coursework sets you up for success.
What's the difference between MEL and M&E?
What is the difference between MEL and M&E?At Clear Horizon, we've adopted Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) as an alternative to the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) approach.
‘Measurement’ replaces ‘Monitoring’ because we think it’s more active and it emphasises that we regularly use this data to draw out insights and learn. Which is where ‘Learning’ comes in; we believe adaptive learning should be a core element of a balanced MEL approach so you can really drive your impact.
MEL ensures accountability and transparency while enabling changemakers to adapt and learn from their work. Our MEL training provides an excellent foundation for M&E practice and will enable you to bring more to the table when it comes to learning and adapting.
‘Measurement’ replaces ‘Monitoring’ because we think it’s more active and it emphasises that we regularly use this data to draw out insights and learn. Which is where ‘Learning’ comes in; we believe adaptive learning should be a core element of a balanced MEL approach so you can really drive your impact.
MEL ensures accountability and transparency while enabling changemakers to adapt and learn from their work. Our MEL training provides an excellent foundation for M&E practice and will enable you to bring more to the table when it comes to learning and adapting.
What is Theory of Change and a MEL plan?
A Theory of Change is a description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a program or project. It really helps you think about how you will achieve your goals and what interim results might be. On the other hand, a Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) plan is a framework that has a strong learning focus. It helps you to track, learn, and adapt your work to acheive your goals. MEL is designed to serve the needs of change-makers by enabling them to rapidly identify what's not working and adapt.
When do the virtual sessions run?
The virtual sessions for this course run on Thursday afternoons between
2:00-3:15pm AEST/AEDT. Sessions run on the following dates:
Increasing Impact through Learning
21 November 2024
28 November 2024
5 December 2024
Increasing Impact through Learning
21 November 2024
28 November 2024
5 December 2024
COURSE EXPERTS
Meet our team
Jess Dart
Course Author
Chief Evaluator, Founder
Chief Evaluator, Founder
Inventor of practical methodologies and a highly sought-after facilitator, Jess navigates complexity with comfort and helps her clients to clarify their desired outcomes and how to get there.Jess has over 25 years’ experience in evaluating and designing social change initiatives in Australia and overseas. She is passionate about developing real-world evaluation and strategy for social justice and sustainability. In particular, she works with systems change interventions, large-scale strategy and social innovation.
Beth Hanson
Lead Mentor
Principal Consultant
Principal Consultant
Bethany (or Beth) Hanson is a Principal Consultant in the Sustainable Futures team. Bethany loves to take a practical approach so clients can engage with evaluation regardless of their background or experience. She gains great satisfaction from empowering clients by building their own evaluation capability to improve the design and delivery of their programs while gaining insights into what is and isn’t working, and why.
Jessica Suares
Support Mentor
Consultant
Consultant
Jessica Suares is a Consultant in Clear Horizon’s Social Impact team. She has extensive background in data analysis, visual analytics, and creating cultures where people want to be more data-savvy. Combined with her studies in qualitative research methods and anthropology, Jessica has a well-rounded approach to evaluation problems.Jessica’s passion is supporting organisations that create positive social change to be even more effective at achieving their goals.
Zoe Enticott
Lead Mentor
Principal Consultant
Principal Consultant
Zoe has a breadth of experience in the government and community sectors, having worked across several departments in the Victorian Government. For the last three years, Zoe has led some of the Department of Education and Training’s evaluation work, including research to synthesise data and findings from programmatic and strategic evaluations to consolidate and share evidence on the progress of the Victorian Education State agenda.
Gabrielle Chamberland
Support Mentor
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
Gabrielle’s experience includes research and evaluation, strategy, communications, and engagement. Her goal is always to equip her clients to generate positive change. She enjoys engaging with project stakeholders and communities, having facilitated many co-design and engagement activities such as workshops, focus groups, and interviews.Her multidisciplinary background means Gabrielle can easily understand complex systems and how their pieces interact.
Increasing Impact through Learning