Coached Program: MEAL Fundamentals for Humanitarian Professionals: 9 September - 7 October 2025
Track progress, demonstrate impact, and ensure accountability through effective data collection and analysis systems.
Enroll NowCoached Online Learning Program
- Format: 5 Coached live sessions plus self-study
- Dates: 9 September - 7 October 2025
- Live Sessions: Tuesdays at 13:00-14:30 UTC
- Time Commitment: 4-5 hours per week over 5 weeks
- Investment: $495 (or $395 for limited budgets)
Good Data Should Lead to Good Decisions
Coached learning program for humanitarian and development professionals to master MEAL systems through live group sessions and personalized feedback. In humanitarian and development work, projects can fail to demonstrate their impact—not because they lack results, but because they can't measure or communicate them effectively. Without strong MEAL systems, projects face:
- Missed opportunities to adapt and improve programs in real-time
- Inability to prove project impact to donors and stakeholders
- Accountability gaps that erode community trust
- Reduced community impact when programs can't adjust to changing needs
- Repeated mistakes when lessons learned are missed
This coached program equips you with practical tools to design MEAL systems that track progress, demonstrate results, and drive adaptive management. You'll develop data collection skills and create feedback mechanisms that put communities at the center. Through effective MEAL implementation, you can:
- Adapt programs based on real-time data and feedback
- Make evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes
- Demonstrate clear impact to communities and donors
- Build trust through transparent accountability mechanisms
- Capture and share learning across teams and projects
Who This Is For
This coached program is for people working in relief, development, or humanitarian contexts who want to enhance their MEAL capabilities. It's ideal for:
- Monitoring and evaluation officers seeking to strengthen technical skills
- Project managers and coordinators integrating MEAL into project cycles
- Field staff responsible for data collection and analysis
- Program development teams designing MEAL systems
- Field staff aligning MEAL systems with community needs
- Anyone whose work involves demonstrating results, accountability, and learning
No prior experience needed—the course delivers clear, practical guidance for newcomers while providing strategic insights and advanced applications for seasoned practitioners.
Your Instructor
With over 25 years of expertise, Neil Kendrick, founder of ELD Impact, specializes in Professional Writing, Reporting Skills, Proposal Writing, Results-Based Management, and Monitoring & Evaluation. Originally from the UK and now based in Turkey, Neil has trained and coached humanitarian and development professionals across more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Regularly praised for his ability to demystify complex topics, Neil makes challenging concepts accessible to practitioners at any level - from field staff in rural NGOs to program managers in multilateral organizations.
How You'll Learn
This coached program blends live group sessions with self-paced learning for deeper skill development:
- Weekly live sessions: Join 90-minute interactive sessions with maximum 8 participants. Work through real challenges, receive targeted coaching, and learn from peers' experiences. All sessions are recorded.
- Apply between sessions: Time between weekly meetings lets you practice new concepts in your actual work, then bring insights and questions back to the group.
- Self-paced materials: Access videos, exercises, templates and tools to work through between sessions. Submit questions and examples from your practice for inclusion in the live meeting.
- Peer exchange: Share approaches and challenges with your group throughout the program. Learn from diverse perspectives while building your professional network.
- Personalized feedback: At the end of the training, submit an assignment based on your context and receive detailed video feedback.
- Impact Community: Join the Project Management Impact Community after the course, to support you further in integrating the skills.
What You'll Learn
Week 1: MEAL Foundations and Monitoring
Understand what MEAL is and why it matters in humanitarian work. Learn to integrate MEAL throughout the project cycle, then build monitoring systems with clear indicators and data collection methods. Get to grips with data management, analysis, and visualization techniques to support data-driven decision-making.
Week 2: Evaluation Design and Implementation
Learn how to design and conduct evaluations throughout the project lifecycle. Explore evaluation ethics, develop evaluation questions, select appropriate methodologies, analyze data, and report findings to stakeholders.
Week 3: Accountability in Practice
Establish accountability mechanisms including feedback and complaint systems. Learn to understand stakeholder expectations and ensure transparency and participation throughout your programs.
Week 4: Learning and Adaptive Management
Develop learning frameworks that capture and share lessons learned. Master adaptive management techniques using real-time data to adjust programs and improve outcomes.
Week 5: Apply and Perfect
In the final meeting, we consolidate your learning through practical case studies and action planning. You then have one week to submit your assignment for personalized feedback.
Impact Stories
9.2/10 Rating (based on 47 reviews)
"I now understand MEAL in depth and can apply it to projects without needing specialized staff. The course gave me confidence to handle both qualitative and quantitative indicators and data analysis independently."
— Participant, Médecins Sans Frontières
"This course taught me to design logical frameworks and indicators to track long-term impact of our SDG projects. I've built skills in data collection and analysis and can now embed MEAL throughout our project cycle for strategic decision-making."
— Kathrin E.
"I feel like I have gone through a whole degree program by just taking this course. I am already applying it in my work. Value for money 100%."
— Alice Wanjiru Ngahu
Course Details
Start: 9 September 2025
Duration: 5 weeks (4-5 hours per week: 90-minute live session + 3 hours self-study)
Investment: $495 (or $395 for limited budgets)
Group Size: Maximum 8 participants
Includes:
- Lifetime access to all course materials (videos, handouts, templates, transcripts)
- Five 90-minute live coaching sessions with expert facilitator
- Personalized video feedback on your assignment (72-hour turnaround)
- End-of-module assessments
- Certificate of completion and letter of achievement
- Post-training access to MEAL Impact Community
Payment Options: To enroll, pay by credit card below. Both options include identical training and materials - choose the standard fee or reduced fee based on your budget.
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