MEAL Under Pressure-An Interactive Webinar for MEAL Practitioners

About Trust Consultancy and Development

Trust Consultancy and Development is an independent research and capacity development consultancy based in Turkey, providing a range of services to the whole of the MENA region. Our dedicated team aspires to provide a range of expert services to international and local NGOs, businesses, donors and third parties with vested interests in different aspects of development and humanitarian action.

Our work addresses the growing demand for high-quality research, third party research, data collection and capacity building services. Aside from our independent research institution, we offer third party consultancy services and our clients include GIZ, Expertise France, Global Communities, IRC, IMC, DCA, Save the Children, People in Need, World Vision, Norwegian Refugee Council and Samaritan’s Purse. As a research institution with capacity building built into our organisation, we offer a unique perspective and can tap into a network of opinions of people working on the ground in real time on the issues we research. Currently, we are working in Syria, Turkey and Iraq. Our head office is in Gaziantep, Turkey with satellite field research bases in Syria and Iraq.

About the Webinar:

You spent weeks building the perfect MEAL plan.

Then Month 6 hits. Attendance collapses. Results are off-target. Your donor emails: “Concerns about progress.”

Now what do you do?

Most MEAL training teaches you to build the plan.
This workshop teaches you what to do when your plan meets reality.

What Happens in This Workshop

You ARE the MEAL Manager for a women’s economic empowerment program. 2,000 women. 15 villages. Rural Kenya.

• For 120 minutes, you’ll face the decisions that separate good MEAL practitioners from great ones:
• Data arrives that contradicts your assumptions. What do you investigate first?
• Results show patterns you didn’t expect. Do you adapt immediately or dig deeper?
• Stakeholders push back. How do you navigate without compromising learning?

You vote. You discuss. You see what happens next.

This Workshop Is For You If:

✅ You’ve built MEAL plans that collided with reality
✅ You’ve explained disappointing results to a donor
✅ You understand indicators but struggle with “now what?”
✅ You want confidence to make decisions with incomplete data
✅ You’re tired of theory—you want practical experience

The decisions you’ll face apply to any sector – health, WASH, protection, education.

What You Walk Away With

• Experience making real MEAL decisions under pressure – 18 months of program challenges compressed into 120 minutes
• Ability to read signals that tell you when to adapt the program vs. investigate deeper
• Confidence to make decisions under pressure without second-guessing yourself