Academy modules

System-informed MEL

Discover how to track and support system change through Climate KIC’s practical approach to monitoring and learning in complexity.

Duration: 12 hours
Format: Online, self-paced
Price: Please contact for more information

Course overview

This course introduces Climate KIC’s systems-informed approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning (SI-MEL). Designed for those working in complexity and climate innovation, it offers a framework to gather and interpret evidence, align strategy and course-correct in the face of system change.

What you'll learn

  • Understand the nature of complex global challenges
  • Facilitate shared strategies and sense-making
  • Measure progress and adapt approaches over time

Course structure

Module 1: Conceptual foundations

  • Systems thinking
  • Portfolio approaches
  • Collaborative sense-making

Module 2: Measurement and monitoring

  • Theory of change
  • Intermediate and long-term outcomes
  • Systems-informed monitoring

Module 3: Evaluation

  • Systems-informed evaluation
  • Theory-based methods
  • Methodological bricolage

Module 4: Sense-making and learning

  • Adaptive learning
  • Structural approaches to collective reflection

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