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Capturing Local Impact

Feedback loops anchor LINC’s adaptive approach, enabling ongoing improvement through a continuous cycle of listening, engagement, discovery, learning and adaptation.

Why We Do It

Monitoring and evaluation initiatives in the development space tend to be over-engineered, reliant on external experts, complex methods and impersonal indicators. As a result, findings and recommendations often ring hollow, disconnected from local reality and ultimately not incorporated into a virtuous cycle of learning and adaptation.

LINC’s complexity-aware Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) approach works to capture locally-relevant learning, applying tools and methods that are accessible, transferable and result in positive impact over time.

How We Do It

LINC assists donors and local organizations to better understand, capture, communicate, and ultimately enhance, the impact of their work. Our offer integrates complexity-aware MEL with more familiar approaches, such as surveys and qualitative analysis. Feedback loops anchor our adaptive approach, enabling ongoing improvement through a continuous cycle of listening, engagement, discovery, learning and adaptation.

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Our current portfolio of activities includes the provision of technical assistance to USAID on performance indicators, a longitudinal evaluation for DFID in DRC, establishing project monitoring systems in Bangladesh, and multiple performance evaluations and sectoral assessments for programs in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

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Our Projects

Facilitating Financial Sustainability (FFS)
Facilitating Financial Sustainability (FFS)
Collective Action in USAID Programming
Collective Action in USAID Programming
Ghana MEL Platform Activity
Ghana MEL Platform Activity
Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity
Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity

The Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity helps USAID and partners to better understand what relief and development interventions can help make households, communities, and systems more resilient.

Monitoring and Evaluation Support for Adaptation (MESA) Activity
Monitoring and Evaluation Support for Adaptation (MESA) Activity
Final Performance Evaluation of the Local Partner Development Activity
Final Performance Evaluation of the Local Partner Development Activity
Kenya AVCD Program Performance Evaluation
Kenya AVCD Program Performance Evaluation
Local Evaluation and Evidence Support (LEES) Activity
Local Evaluation and Evidence Support (LEES) Activity
Final Performance Evaluation of USAID Cambodia Green Future Activity
Final Performance Evaluation of USAID Cambodia Green Future Activity
Facilitating Financial Sustainability
Facilitating Financial Sustainability
SPACES MERL
SPACES MERL
CAPx (Capital Impact Exchange) Activity
CAPx (Capital Impact Exchange) Activity
DRC IMAGINE Project
DRC IMAGINE Project

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