Enabling Local Design for Global Impact – Lessons from the Rollout of Islamic Relief’s Global Programmes & MEAL System

About the Webinar

With the launch of their new Global Programmes & MEAL System (GPMS) Islamic Relief is enabling a “bottom-up” approach to project design led by the local country teams.

In this session, we are excited to welcome Claire Bedwell-Thomas, Global Programme Impact & MEAL Manager at Islamic Relief who will walk us through the GPMS rollout journey and share lessons learnt.

We will see how putting local teams at the very heart of the design and the process led to a system that can be used and leveraged by all stakeholders for understanding and showcasing global impact.

During the one-hour session, Claire will cover:

• The key activities undertaken, from the initial stakeholder consultations to the pilot and the global rollout itself
• The composition of the implementation team, including roles and responsibilities of internal staff and external partners along with required skillsets
• The tools used to implement the new system, including considerations for implementing at a global scale while empowering local staff

There will also be a Q&A session.

Is this Webinar for me?

• Are you looking for inspiration on designing an information system for your global programs and MEAL?
• Would you like to explore how putting local teams at the very heart of the process can support the design and development of a system that can be leveraged by all stakeholders for impact measurement?
• Would you like to ask questions about the approach and the implementation to get ideas for your own system?

Then, join our Webinar!

About the Presenter and ActivityInfo

Claire Bedwell-Thomas is the Global Programme Impact & MEAL Manager for Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). She works on enhancing Islamic Relief’s (IR) commitment for results-based programming, increased accountability, and institutionalised learning. She has recently launched IR’s first Global Results Framework and is also leading on the design, implementation and roll out of a Global Programmes & MEAL System (GPMS) in 27 countries worldwide. She liaises with different organisational departments, donors and country offices to ensure quality and accountability is at the core of IRW’s programmes in both humanitarian and development contexts.

ActivityInfo is an information management platform perfect for monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian coordination and case management. For more than a decade, the ActivityInfo team has been supporting humanitarian operations and development programs worldwide catering for emerging needs for data collection and analysis. UN agencies, INGOS and NGOs use the platform to centralize and standardize data collection, display the impact of their activities while maintaining complete control on data access and changes. Originally developed for UNICEF’s emergency program in eastern DRC, ActivityInfo is a service provided by BeDataDriven a company based in The Hague, Netherlands.