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In-person meeting of our Middle East Hub on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) and Faith

The Middle East Joint Learning Hub on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) and Faith held its long-awaited in-person meeting from the 22nd until the 25th of February 2024, in Istanbul, Türkiye. The meeting marked an important milestone in the hub’s activities culminating in meeting ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Bottom-Up Project Co-Design

On January 17 2024, JLI held a MEAL Hub session where members had the opportunity to learn about bottom-up project co-design from hub co-chair Mukunda Adhikari. The session covered how issues such as decolonization, localization, participation and inclusion should be taken into consideration when designing ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Culturally Responsive Evaluation

On July 12, 2023, JLI MEAL Hub members had the opportunity to learn about Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) with guest speaker Dr. Wanda Casillas. CRE provides a way of understanding how culture influences us as diverse MEAL practitioners and program stakeholders, and adjusting responsively in ways that ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Creative methods and approaches : Data and displacement in northern Nigeria and South Sudan

JLI started a new series on creative faith-sensitive MEAL and research methods. In this third session of the year, Prof. Vicki Squire from the University of Warwick spoke about a research project she has recently completed on data and displacement in northern Nigeria and South Sudan, as part of a collaboration ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Creative methods and approaches : Faith-based work for social change in Kenya and the UK

JLI started a new series on creative faith-sensitive MEAL and research methods. In this second session of the year, Cyprian Yobera spoke about his work in Kenya and the UK. Join the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Working Group (MEAL WG). Every other month, the group will host a ...

Webinar Summary: Accountable Localisation – Local Faith Actors Speak Out

The Fair & Equitable Dialogues Series continues to explore different challenging themes related to unequal power dynamics, decolonization and localization in international humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development work through showcasing research evidence and practices from diverse actors around the ...

Webinar Summary: Accountable Localisation – Local Faith Actors Speak Out

JLI MEAL Hub – Creative methods and approaches : Participatory ethnographic methods during the Covid-19 pandemic

On March 31, 2022, JLI started a new series on creative faith-sensitive MEAL and research methods. In this first session of the year, a guest speaker from the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Ann Zuntz, spoke about her work in the MENA region and participatory ethnographic methods during the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Creative methods and approaches

JLI MEAL Hub: Impact of COVID on Organizations’ MEAL Work

August 25, 2021, discussion amongst the MEAL Hub members on the impact of COVID on organizations' MEAL work. The following points were discussed: Accounting for COVID’s impacts – many organizations seek to assess the impact of their work as a part of MEAL … but how have organizations adjusted their ...

JLI MEAL Dissemination Opportunities

The JLI Meal Hub is now focusing on the dissemination of its findings. On 4 March, JLI Senior Research Associate, Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert, will deliver an interactive session on MEAL in local-international faith partnerships to the participants of the iDove project. A project that focuses on youth, religion ...

JLI MEAL Hub launches new ‘Compendium of Good Practices’

The JLI MEAL Hub launched a new 'Compendium of Good Practices Conducting MEAL in Partnerships with International Actors and Local Faith Actors' The Compendium, launched this January, explores good practices of MEAL in partnerships between international actors and local faith actors. It is based on more than ...