A summary of Cultivating Change’s work since 2020! We’ve worked on 46 projects for 35 organisations, across many different types of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) tasks and different topics.

A good critical friend turns spirals into conversations that actually lead somewhere. They help you progress your work, sharpen your thinking, and bring a new perspective, sometimes when you don't even realise you need it

Applying the principles of citizen science to social change - capturing ‘instances of impact’ as they arise in ’

Let’s reduce data clutter! Musings on how we might do quant data cleaning better in the non-profit world - lets maximise all our time, and be thoughtful in what data we collect, how we collect it and what we do with it.

What it truly means and takes to get informed consent from children - examples from a piercing specialist contrasted against consent for a school-based evaluation

Examining my prejudice against my daughter reading graphic novels while considering how I use stories and images in my evaluation work and reporting

How we reflect and learn from our practice, including feedback from clients we’ve worked with in 2022. Putting into practice what we preach!

How our work is changing in the ‘new normal’. Work - and life - is messy, and looks far more like a theory of change with multiple pathways, cross-links, double backs and unknowns, then the deceptively simple, and ultimately unrealistic, project logic.

Sharing and celebrating evaluation findings with food, wine and good times