Who We Collaborate With
We work as Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Partners on both small single-country and large multi-country programs. We work with partners to collaboratively design and implement MEAL systems. Below we highlight some of the partners and projects we have been working on most recently:
Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH)
Salanga delivered a virtual three-part interactive training series designed for AI beginners for CanWaCH’s membership. “ChatGPT Unleashed: Ignite Your Monitoring and Evaluation Journey with AI,” helped participants demystify the power of ChatGPT, a cutting-edge AI technology, and explore its limitless potential for revolutionizing monitoring, evaluation, and learning in their organizations.The training helped participants navigate the strengths and challenges of using AI as an ally in gender-transformative global health programming and unlock a world of possibilities in project design and qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
The Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH) is a proud membership of more than 100 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, health professional associations and private companies committed to advancing the health and rights of women, children and adolescents globally.
2024
SPUR Change
Salanga designed and facilitated a three-part interactive training for small to medium sized organizations called “Intro to ChatGPT: Unlocking AI for Project Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning”, supported by the Spur Change program. Through hands-on exercises, participants discovered how AI can enhance project design, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and address challenges in gender-transformative programming.
The Spur Change program, is a 7-year capacity-building and knowledge-sharing initiative, provides support for Canadian SMOs in the planning, implementation and monitoring of development projects. The program is implemented by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation in collaboration with the other provincial and regional Canadian councils.
2025
ADRA Canada
Salanga is the strategic MEL Partner to ADRA Canada and also the MEAL lead on two ongoing multi-country, grant-distributing, health and education programmes funded by Global Affairs Canada. These programmes (BRIGHT and TOGETHER) operate in Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Philippines, Myanmar, Niger and Sudan. Salanga provides MEAL Framework design, MEAL Planning, capacity building for programme staff, implementing partners and local partners in MEAL, CoLMEAL, Gender and Feminist Approaches, and leads the ColMEAL components in both programs. Further, Salanga co-designs qualitative and quantitative data collection tools, including HMIS (government health data). ADRA Canada has also been using Kinaki, Salanga’s SaaS MEL Solution, since 2013 in all its projects.
2013-Present
Czech Development Agency & ADRA Czech
Salanga conducted engaging online training for partners of the Czech Development Agency in designing organizational pathways to more localized, community-led development. Participants learned about the core principles of community-led development and MEAL, key milestones for implementing CoLMEAL, and how to plan for adequate staff support and budgets. Participants then assessed the enabling factors that are already in place or may be needed to implement CoLMEAL in their organizations and developed a plan for applying CoLMEAL to their work.
2022
International Development Research Centre
Salanga is the MEL technical Partner for CLARE, a research programme on Climate Adaptation and Resilience, aiming to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards in Africa and Asia-Pacific. Salanga provides support in the design of the Logic Model, MEL Framework and tool design at the programme level. As well, we built capacity of project MEL leads through regular training sessions and conducted quality assurance data reviews.
2022-present
ADRA Czech Republic & Cambodia
Salanga partnered with ADRA Czech Republic on the CLEAR project in Cambodia to pilot the CoLMEAL process in a community with no alternative agenda or larger project structure. Because of this, the community had full control over the direction of the target actions. Salanga supported the project staff ot provide training for community members and built their capacity in gender sensitivity and dynamics, community involvement and development processes, understanding the importance of having a shared future community vision, and community group facilitation and communication skills.
The community identified a great need for a childcare facility. They crafted a comprehensive plan to construct a new pre-school and train community members as early childhood educators (ECEs). They also identified indicators of success, ensuring they could measure progress. Even more impressively, the community secured funding from an external organization, demonstrating their ability to mobilize resources.
2023-2024
Fund for Innovation and Transformation
FIT is designed to support Canadian SMOs and their global partners to test innovative solutions that advance gender equality in the Global South. Salanga is the MEAL partner for FIT, helping to establish the initial MEAL design and definitions as well as processes around monitoring innovation testing and reporting to donors. Salanga also co-designed the baseline and other data collection tools and provides capacity building in MEAL for the FIT Team and its grantees. Kinaki is used by FIT to track indicators in their performance measurement framework, aggregate results across FIT grantee’s projects and report to the donor. Kinaki is also used by some FIT grantees to track their individual projects.
2019-Present
Youth Challenge International
Salanga acted as the MEL Technical Partner for HerStart which is a multi-country Initiative implemented in Canada, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda, funded by Global Affairs Canada. Salanga provided MEL design and capacity building for the project teams including local technology and mobile network partners via live sessions; mentoring; a community of practice; and an online learning platform. Kinaki was used by the in-country implementing partners as well as the Canadian MEL program and executive teams to monitor and aggregate data across all the projects and report to the donor.
2019-2023
Nutrition International & African Development Bank
Salanga assessed the African Development Bank’s MEL systems and technology for tracking health and nutrition indicators. We assessed database system options and provided recommendations. We designed a custom cloud-based database system and dashboard for tracking the integration of key nutrition indicators in their projects.
“The technical support provided to the Bank helped the IT and Nutrition team to collectively developed a specific internal project for institutional sustainability measures and to standardize data collection in the internal business systems for Nutrition Dashboard…[T]he dashboard informed the Bank on its commitments to increase its nutrition smart investments in agriculture and food system projects in Africa…” – Amaka Odenigbo, Nutrition International
2018-2022
Canadian International Science Exchange Program
Salanga is the MEAL partner for Canadian International Science Exchange Program’s (CISEPO) technology innovation program for maternal child health, operating in the West Bank and funded by FIT. The innovation aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic, while supporting immediate workforce strengthening and health system linkage needs through a blended technology and behavioural intervention.
2022-Present
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[The] Salanga team was very actively engaged, so professional and always ready to provide solutions to arising issues through out the implementation of the project. I would strongly recommend the technical expertise of Salanga in similar work. The technical support provided to the Bank helped the IT and Nutrition team to collectively developed a specific internal project for institutional sustainability measures and to standardize data collection in the internal business systems for Nutrition Dashboard. (Salanga worked with Nutrition International and the African Development Bank to develop a custom Nutrition Dashboard to track its nutrition smart investments.)
Senior Advisor, Multisectoral Nutrition
[Kinaki] greatly increases the transparency, accountability, and communication between all parties involved. Additionally, Kinaki’s reporting feature allows us to have consistent reporting year after year.
Senior M&E Coordinator, ADRA Canada
Salanga provides us with personal security training of our staff for almost two years. We really appreciate their ability to adapt the program to fit our needs. We plan to work with Salanga again in the future and we would gladly recommend them to other organizations, NGO or otherwise.
Security Department
Salanga helps us to transfer the topic of security into the practical level and strengthen thus not only knowledge and skills but also attitudes of our students through unconventional methods.
Head of International Social and Humanitarian Work Studies at CARITAS
Having data in one place, easily accessible and understandable, helped us greatly in the preparation phase and served as a valuable basis for further research in the field during the evaluation.
Independent Evaluator
I must say that the HEAT security training has completely changed my view on many things. In many ways, it has simply opened my eyes and I am only understanding it over time while running into different situations.
Participant of the Stress TrainingThe week was very demanding for us and few of us are likely to ever forget it. The HEAT training included everything it possibly could. Pain, happiness, joy, tears, and tears again; but mainly an incredible learning opportunity for all of us. …
We have grown so much, not only as individuals, but also as a team of people.
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