This course introduces a practical, proportionate approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning for growing development organisations. It examines how MEL connects to strategy, funding, and governance, and how to move from indicator-heavy reporting toward insight-driven decision-making. Designed for organisations navigating institutional funding and increasing scrutiny, it focuses on building confidence, clarity, and coherence in learning systems.

Available as cohort-based learning or tailored organisational delivery, with dedicated time to apply the principles to your own programmes.

Making programmes fundable without hollowing out their intent.

This course explores how institutional funding works in reality — how funders think, how funding shapes programme design, and how organisations can navigate requirements without losing strategic clarity. It covers early institutional funding, proposal logic, risk appetite, and the relationship between fundraising, governance, and delivery.

Delivered as a facilitated cohort or organisational programme, allowing teams to reflect on their current funding strategy and strengthen their approach in a practical, grounded way.

For organisations that want boards to add real strategic value — not just oversight.

This course explores how executive teams can design more effective board engagement by shaping agendas, decision framing, and the use of learning and evidence. It focuses on moving beyond compliance-driven interactions toward genuine strategic partnership, helping boards strengthen judgement, support better decisions, and engage meaningfully with organisational learning.

Delivered as a facilitated cohort or tailored organisational programme, with space to work through your own governance challenges in context.