About the Event
Too often, evaluations are driven by a non-local agenda – but local stakeholders hold the deepest insights into what works and what is most relevant. This webinar dives into the practice of locally led evaluations where power shifts closer to affected communities.
Participants will come away with a conceptual framework that grounds locally led evaluation in key principles and outlines the practical steps to shift their approach closer to locally led evaluations. We will share practical examples of local and community-driven strategies that challenge traditional evaluation practices.
We’ll spotlight the CoLMEAL (Community-Led MEAL) approach – a powerful model that puts communities in the driver’s seat, with local people leading every step of the process: from assessment and design to collecting, analysing, using, and sharing data on their own terms.
Wherever you are on the spectrum of locally led evaluation, and whether you are an evaluator, commissioner or funder, this session will spark conversations, ideas and action to advance locally led and community driven evaluation. Join us to rethink who evaluates, how and why.
Participants will come away with a conceptual framework that grounds locally led evaluation in key principles and outlines the practical steps to shift their approach closer to locally led evaluations. We will share practical examples of local and community-driven strategies that challenge traditional evaluation practices.
We’ll spotlight the CoLMEAL (Community-Led MEAL) approach – a powerful model that puts communities in the driver’s seat, with local people leading every step of the process: from assessment and design to collecting, analysing, using, and sharing data on their own terms.
Wherever you are on the spectrum of locally led evaluation, and whether you are an evaluator, commissioner or funder, this session will spark conversations, ideas and action to advance locally led and community driven evaluation. Join us to rethink who evaluates, how and why.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Hana Abul Husn | Senior Research Officer, ALNAP | Hana is a Senior Research Officer at ALNAP where she engages with ALNAP’s M&E audiences. She co-authored the paper “Advancing locally led evaluations: Practical insights for humanitarian contexts”. She has held facilitator, researcher and M&E roles within local & international NGOs and UN agencies. |
| Jakub Nemec | Executive Director, Salanga | Jakub has worked in the field of international development & humanitarian aid for over two decades and founded Salanga in 2007. He is a practitioner at heart and draws on his experience to support Salanga’s partners across all aspects of a project with focus on design, MEAL & community-led methods. |
| Kassem El Saddik | Senior Evaluation Advisor and Co-founder of 360 Consulting | Kassem leads strategic advisory work on evaluation, learning, and organizational development across humanitarian and development sectors. With more than two decades of experience, he has led complex evaluations across fragile and conflict-affected contexts in the MENA region and Africa. |
Moderators
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Mae Albiento | Research Officer, ALNAP | Mae is a Research Officer at ALNAP where she supports M&E engagement and locally led research. She has held roles in research, evaluation and project management for local and international NGOs in the Philippines. She has academic background in evaluation, public management, and development studies. |