MEL360 Practical Tools
Hands-On Resources to Apply Systems MEL
Custom-made How-To Sheets and Mini-Briefs to help you apply MEL360 in your own projects and initiatives.
This MEL 360 tool helps define shared long-term purpose
entry point:
Strategic Intent
Review Direction
This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus
entry point:
System Boundaries
Revisit System Boundaries
This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus
entry point:
System Boundaries
Revisit System Boundaries
This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus
entry point:
System Boundaries
Revisit System Boundaries
This MEL 360 tool helps understanding where and how you can act
entry point:
Revisit System Boundaries
Spheres of Control, Interest and Influence
This MEL 360 tool helps understanding where and how you can act
entry point:
Spheres of Control, Interest and Influence
This MEL 360 tool supports framing system shifts in design and observing deeper patterns in implementation.
entry point:
Domains of Change
This MEL 360 tool helps revisiting your system boundaries and spheres of influence to understand how the context has shifted and where you can act
entry point:
Revisit System Boundaries
This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change
entry point:
Surface Patterns
This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change
entry point:
Surface Patterns
This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change
entry point:
Surface Patterns
This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change
entry point:
Surface Patterns
This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change
entry point:
Surface Patterns
This MEL 360 tool helps adapting your strategy and MEL based on system feedback
entry point:
Shift Course
Cultivate Coherence
This MEL 360 tool helps exploring three broad types of evaluations:
Evaluations of the system - not your initiative.
Evaluations to support innovation - specifically developmental Evaluation.
Evaluations of your initiative’s Contribution to Systems Change
entry point:
Strategic Intent
Review Direction
System Boundaries
Revisit System Boundaries
Spheres of Control, Interest and Influence
Domains of Change
Surface Patterns
Shift Course
Cultivate Coherence
This MEL 360 tool helps understanding various archetypes of Learning Partners, which can play a vital role in embedding learning and activating learning partnerships within systems change. Their purpose is to centre a learning approach and build ownership of learning among those closest to the work.
entry point:
Strategic Intent
Review Direction
System Boundaries
Revisit System Boundaries
Spheres of Control, Interest and Influence
Domains of Change
Surface Patterns
Shift Course
Cultivate Coherence
Implemented by:
United Nations
Development Programme
FUNDED BY:
MEL 360 is part of the Systems, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation initiative (SMLE) of UNDP funded by the Gates Foundation.
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