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M4C is an intrinsic, end to end and ongoing process.
Father Involvement in Early Childhood Care
Insights from a MEL system in a behavioral change intervention amount rural Indian parents. 
If you were to highlight one learning/component from the M4C framework to other practitioners, which one it will be? Why?
"Relevance of the constant learning and adaptation to changing context and circumstances all stage of the project. Community based development projects that are usually complex with multi-stakeholder and interests demand constant reflection and adaptability to circumstances and to make meaningful change. Therefore measurement for change is an intrinsic, end to end and ongoing process." 
Dynamically integrated, outcome monitoring and an adaptable MEL system to achieve sustainable scalable impact.
Rapid-Cycle Evaluation
In an early intervention program for children with developmental disabilities in South India.
What elements of the M4C framework are reflected in the way you work?
"Our work reflects key M4C framework elements: a dynamic integrated outcome monitoring (both quantitative and qualitative, rapid cycle evidence-informed learning and decision making, and learning, stakeholders driven adaptations (including caregivers and service providers), and an adaptable MEL system to achieve sustainable scalable impact. Our first M4C paper highlighted the Enabling Inclusion Program's rapid-cycle data collection and evaluation to support evidence-informed and stakeholder-driven adaptations to the early intervention program which led to improved service provider quality of work-life, family empowerment and improved program engagement, improved child school enrollment, and positioned the Enabling Inclusion Model and App for scale-up"
Philosophy of self-questioning and instant project transformation based on community and feedback and evaluation.
Look Upstream
Measurement for Innovation on the Upper Rio Negro of the Amazon Basin
If you were to highlight one learning component from the M4C framework to other practitioners, which one it will be? Why?
"What I value most in M4C is not its 'framework' (a metaphor with fixed and solid connotations), but the philosophy of self-questioning and instant project transformation based on community and user feedback and evaluation. In this way, social change can have the same agility and creativity of software development and other forms of innovation."
This body of evidence and the advocacy around it has created a tipping point in support of the policy change.
Building evidence for pre-school policy change in Bulgaria
How MEL contributed to policy change
The process of collection can enrich plans and create links within the network.
Cementing Partnerships
Applying a network-mapping tool in Tajikistan
Building better programs with more impact
About US
Currently, the M4C project is run by the Caribbean Center for Child Neurodevelopment based in Grenada, West Indies. The M4C framework was originally launched at Utrecht University in 2019 by Penny Holding (PhD), Joachim Krapels (PhD), and Joost de Laat (PhD). The initial dialogue included 21 organizations working with familities and children across the globe.
M4C team and partners
Reading List
A collection of scholarly publications of key M4C discourse
- Effective Delivery of Integrated Interventions in Early Childhood: Innovations in Evidence Use, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning | Frontiers Research Topic (frontiersin.org
- Measurement for Change: From Idea to Approach
- The Aspirations of Measurement for Change
- Measurement for Change: Reflections from innovators' experiences with monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for Early Childhood Development
- Achieving Impacts at Scale in Early Childhood Interventions: Innovations in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning | Frontiers Research Topic (frontiersin.org)
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