“[These] sessions are good. They give a sense of clarity and confidence.”
Dickson O., client
What if you could receive personalized guidance and coaching to help you effectively clarify, measure, and deepen your program’s social impact?
Discover the advisory call packages that are designed to deliver expert monitoring and evaluation (M&E) advice tailored to your specific situation so that you can credibly demonstrate the effectiveness of your program and strengthen your brand.
Available ‘Optimize my program’s M&E’ advisory call packages
Select the package that best meets your needs.
4-session package
6-session package
All the guidance and support you need to effectively measure and communicate your program’s impact
Both packages involve customized advisory calls that take a deep dive into your program’s specific M&E challenges and frustrations and deliver guidance to get you closer to your dreams and goals of:
- optimizing your program to make the most meaningful impact;
- standing out to funders and other partners as a trustworthy entity deserving of consistent support; and, ultimately,
- deepening your program’s impact and ensuring the sustainability of your organization.
If you need expert advice to up your program’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) game…
...then an advisory call package may be for you!
With the objective of ensuring that your program’s M&E is as robust and practical as possible so that you can leverage its insights and tools to support your strategic objectives, the packages are customized to deliver the specific transformation that addresses your specific needs for your specific program and context.
The overall goal is to help you and your team effectively clarify your program’s impact and measure its effectiveness so that you can learn about what’s working and what’s not working (and adapt your program accordingly), comply with funding requirements, and confidently, credibly, and compellingly communicate your results.
That way, YOUR program stands out to funders and other partners and, ultimately, you get to deepen your program’s impact while ensuring organizational sustainability.
The advice and coaching that you receive is based on international ‘best’ practice and real-world experience across multiple sectors.
The sessions will help you gain clarity to ensure that your program’s M&E produces quality evidence to the people who need it, when they need it – without it feeling overly burdensome, complex, and time-consuming.
And aside from saving time in the long run, you also reduce the need to outsource M&E activities by gaining the skills needed within your team.
So if you’re a results-oriented social impact program leader looking to deepen your impact and strengthen your brand, book an advisory call package today!
Booking an advisory call package will get you concrete, expert feedback on your program results measurement questions and will help you...
Clarify your program’s impact and (re)discover its potential to be transformative
Gain fresh clarity on your program’s ambition and strategy and the coherence of program activities.
Solidify donor confidence by demonstrating accountability and good value for money
Attract and maintain stable funding, strong partnerships, and committed volunteers
Save time and effort by streamlining your program’s management…
…and ensuring that its M&E framework and processes are fit for purpose and context. Say goodbye to reporting period panic! Gain time to focus on core program activities!
Comply with funders’ M&E requirements and align with international standards and accepted practice
Hello, robust ToC! Hello, SMART indicators! Hello, timely reporting! Hello, M&E done well!
Make decisions based on the appropriate evidence and enhance program effectiveness and efficiency
Gain accurate insights for learning and adaptation!
Deepen the transformative impact of your program
Maximize positive results for the people and/or the piece of the planet that your program serves!
Confidently communicate about your program’s results in coherent, credible, and compelling fashion
BONUS:
Build confidence to engage on M&E topics with your funder and other partners
BONUS:
Impress your peers, boost your brand!
Themes for your tailormade advisory call package may be related to – but are not limited to – the following:
From Frustration to Focus: Choosing the Right Impact Measurement Framework for Your Program
Turning Insights into Action: Building an M&E System That Drives Decision-Making
Simplifying Complexity: Key Components of an Effective M&E Framework for Social Impact Programs
From Outputs to Outcomes: Shifting Your Focus for Truly Meaningful Results
The Power of SMART Indicators: Ensuring Systematic Accurate Measurement in Your Program
Technology-Enabled M&E: Tools and Platforms to Streamline Data Collection and Analysis
Beyond Numbers: Integrating Qualitative Insights into Your M&E Process
Stakeholder Engagement: Involving Program Participants and Partners in Your M&E Process for Deeper Insights
Adaptive Management: Using M&E Insights to Continuously Improve Your Program
The Power of Data Storytelling: Crafting Compelling Stories with Your M&E Data to Communicate Your Program's Impact to Funders and Partners
Your advisor/coach and her backstory
Kandi Shejavali
Hi! I’m Kandi Shejavali, graduate of New York University (NYU) and specialist in program results measurement and learning – aka monitoring and evaluation (M&E…or MEL, MEAL, MERL).
I have a cross-cultural background and over 15 years of rich global experience applying my M&E know-how to programs aimed at making a measurable contribution to positive socioeconomic and environmental outcomes.
Though my experience encompasses multiple aspects of M&E, my most proven expertise is in the design and implementation of robust yet practical program results frameworks and related strategies and processes for ongoing measurement and reporting. Having worked on programs (co-)funded by foundations, multilateral organizations, governments, sector-specific networks, and corporates, I know how to help my clients meet different investors’/funders’ expectations in a way that feels aligned with their vision of success.
Grounded in values of inclusion, deep listening, and collaborative action, my approach is based on international ‘best’ practice and real-world experience while remaining true to each client’s mission, sensitive to their program’s context, and welcoming of innovative methods (including incorporating Indigenous wisdom and related tools).
One of my greatest joys comes from helping results-oriented leaders of social impact programs
…go from…
feeling frustrated by program results measurement and reporting practices that don’t adequately capture and convey the difference their program makes and/or uncertain that their program results measurement and reporting practices meet expected standards
…to…
being equipped with a robust and practical monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system that provides clear, credible, and actionable insights into their program’s effectiveness
…so that they can…
learn about what’s working and what’s not working (and adapt the program accordingly), comply with funders’ and other investors’ requirements, and confidently, credibly, and compellingly communicate their results,
…and thereby…
optimize their program, stand out to partners as a trustworthy entity deserving of consistent support, and, ultimately, deepen their program’s impact and enhance the sustainability of their organization.
I’d be honored to take that joyful journey with you during our advisory calls!
Why this matters to me?
Because I want to be part of co-creating a world with widespread wellbeing. You have a social impact program that can make a meaningful contribution towards just that and, by elevating your efforts, I get to achieve my dream, too! Win-win!
Kandi
p.s. My other greatest joys include enjoying great food, reading bedtime stories to my nieces and nephews, running (well, not always a joy while doing it...), but that’s for another platform!
“…I am confident that I got my professional mentor Kandi. The 1-hour one on one session with her was commendable. After the session, I have improved on the M&E processes in the project I support in my organization.”
Otim H., client
See what some of my corporate clients and employers have said
“[Kandi] played a key role in developing a well-received theory of change and in defining a suitable indicator framework for a complex project. Her refinement of the project’s theory of change, program logic and indicator table was drawn upon to inform similar work for other projects. … Kandi’s excellent communication skills allowed her to be widely accepted within the team. Even usually [skeptical] team members listened carefully to her counsel. Her work was well received as a result of the high quality, creativity and unwavering reliability with which she goes about it.” – Client (program in southeast Asia)
“Having worked with her since 2010, I have always experienced Kandi’s performance to be excellent, as evidenced by teams’ feedback. In particular, colleagues have remarked on her technical expertise and highly effective people skills….” – Client (multi-country program in sub-Saharan Africa)
“[Kandi’s] demonstrated high level of performance confirms that [she] is a consummate professional, possessing [the] requisite array of technical and management skills as well as the requisite passion, commitment, temperament, and people skills.” – Former employer (multi-sector program in sub-Saharan Africa)
(If you'd like to read more of what clients and employers have had to say about collaborating with me, click here.)
The approach taken in the advisory calls is based on a vision of helping you effectively measure and communicate your program’s impact so that you can deepen your impact and enhance organizational sustainability.
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p.s. Don’t worry if your program has its own donor-specific or other requirements for M&E. The advisory calls and coaching programs teach core elements of quality M&E that are applicable to a wide variety of programs, including those whose results measurement framework may need to follow specific guidelines from the funder or other entities. The approach is in line with ‘best’ international principles and practices of M&E as well as with documented new trends in results measurement and management, with the maximization of positive, transformative outcomes at the core.
p.p.s. My specialization is in M&E frameworks and related results measurement, tracking/monitoring, data quality assurance and verification, results communications, learning, and adaptation and leveraging M&E-generated insights and related tools to support strategic objectives. I have also conducted evaluations and have good familiarity with evaluation approaches and methods, especially with how to integrate evaluation considerations into the broader M&E framework. However, I do not consider myself an evaluation guru, and complex analytical and statistical techniques are not my forté (power calculations? yeah, no :-) ), so if you need support in those areas I'm not your gal.
p.p.p.s. If what you've read sounds good to you and we were to work together, be assured that I'll show up fully to our sessions. I'll be 100% there to serve you. But there are also some things that I'll require from you: that you fully show up, too and that you'll take action on what we collaborate on during the session. Being fully present and engaged, together we can create something that will be of immense value to you.
I hope to see you on a call!
Kandi Shejavali
