Salanga is a strategic partner to ADRA Canada, with a relationship spanning projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, Myanmar, Niger, and Sudan.

ADRA Canada played a pivotal role in piloting Colmeal through the BRIGHT project beginning in 2018. Colmeal has since become a core pillar of their development approach — integrated across programming and contexts well beyond its original scope.

Across multiple Global Affairs Canada-funded programmes, Salanga has served as MEAL lead — designing MEAL frameworks and plans, building capacity for programme staff, implementing partners, and local partners, and co-designing qualitative and quantitative data collection tools including HMIS integration. Salanga also leads the Colmeal components across joint programming.

Salanga has partnered with ADRA Canada on multiple Global Affairs Canada funded projects: LEAF, EMBRACE, BRIGHT, TOGETHER, and STRONGER.

2013-Present

World Renew is a Canadian international development organisation with over 40 years of presence in Bangladesh. In 2025, World Renew was awarded an $8.3 million CAD grant from Global Affairs Canada for the SAY SRHR program (Supportive Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) — a five-year initiative working with adolescents and youth, particularly girls aged 10 to 24, across the Dinajpur and Netrokona districts of Bangladesh. The program aims to reach approximately 210,000 direct participants across both districts.

Salanga is the Colmeal partner on the SAY program, working alongside World Renew and three Bangladeshi implementing partners — LAMB, SATHEE, and PARI. Salanga’s role is to bridge Colmeal with World Renew’s established People’s Institutions model — a three-tier community governance structure through which communities have long designed and managed their own development processes. Colmeal is being embedded throughout the People’s Institutions model, from community formation through to independent monitoring and advocacy with local government.

In April 2026, Salanga completed the first Capacity Sharing with 38 staff from all four partner organisations — covering the full Colmeal methodology through structured guidance sessions and role plays, with side-by-side Bangla translation throughout. Community-level implementation begins in Year 2 of the program.

2025-2026

FIT is a Canadian initiative designed to support small and medium organisations (SMOs) and their global partners in testing innovative solutions that advance gender equality in the Global South.

Salanga serves as the MEAL partner for FIT — supporting the initial design of the MEAL framework and definitions, establishing processes for monitoring innovation testing, and guiding donor reporting. Salanga has also worked directly with FIT grantees on the development of logic models, performance measurement frameworks, and learning briefs.

2019-2026

The Global Centre for Pluralism is an Ottawa-based international organisation working to advance pluralism as a foundation for inclusive and peaceful societies worldwide.

Salanga provided an interactive two-day training to the Global Centre for Pluralism’s team on Results-Based Management and Performance Measurement Frameworks. Our role was to build shared language, confidence, and coherence around core RBM principles — equipping staff to develop stronger proposals, meet donor reporting requirements, and contribute to a more systematic institutional approach to MEAL.

2026

ACTED Sri Lanka partnered with Salanga in 2024 to integrate Colmeal into its AGORA-based Disaster Risk Reduction program across four districts in northern and eastern Sri Lanka — Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Ampara, and Batticaloa. The region faces recurring climate shocks — floods, droughts, saltwater intrusion, and human-elephant conflict — that undermine agricultural livelihoods and community resilience.

Colmeal was integrated with ACTED’s AGORA approach to embed community-led assessment, root cause analysis, indicator design, and monitoring into structures that were already in place. Salanga provided capacity sharing for 14 ACTED staff across country coordination, program management, and MEAL roles. 1,500+ families were reached across the four districts.

The program was USAID-funded and was terminated in early 2025 following the U.S. Executive Order to dismantle USAID, before endline assessment could be completed.

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

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. 

2022-2025

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

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

Salanga partnered with Cooperation Canada to design and facilitate a five-part virtual co-learning series for Canadian-based international cooperation organizations. The series was built to address a persistent gap in the sector: many organizations have strong commitments to locally-led development but lack practical pathways to translate those values into fundable, operational approaches.

Salanga designed and led the full learning journey — including five facilitated virtual sessions on locally-led development foundations, funding strategy, organizational readiness, and peer exchange — alongside individual coaching, and co-creation of a sector-facing resource. The series drew on Salanga’s Organizational Readiness Tool and featured global practitioners from Kenya, Uganda, and the Philippines, grounding Canadian sector discourse in real-world implementation experience.

2026

Salanga partnered with Cooperation Canada to design and facilitate a four-part virtual learning series on artificial intelligence and equity for the Canadian international cooperation sector. The series responded to growing AI adoption in the sector without adequate frameworks for engaging with it ethically, critically, or through a justice lens.

Salanga served as coordinator and lead facilitator, curating guest speakers and resources at the intersection of AI and equity — covering topics including bias and data colonialism, feminist approaches to AI, ethical AI policy design, and equitable service delivery. Sessions were open to all roles across the sector, recorded and shared publicly to extend reach beyond registered participants. The series drew on Salanga’s networks and prior AI capacity-building work with CanWaCH and SpurChange.

2026

Salanga assessed the African Development Bank’s MEAL 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

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.

2022-2025

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

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.

2019-2023