Systems Transformation: Strategy and Evaluation
Gain the skills and the confidence to transform complex societal systems for more equitable outcomes.
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Built from practice, shaped for impact.
The Academy is Clear Horizon’s learning hub for strategy, measurement, evaluation, and learning. Drawing on decades of experience across different sectors, we design learning experiences that meet the needs of practitioners and organisations at all levels.
Our learning combines real-world expertise with global best practice, latest thinking, and innovative approaches, crafted by leading experts in impact measurement and evaluation, social and environmental change, and learning design. We offer facilitated and self-paced courses, bespoke learning programs, coaching support, and a wide range of free resources.
For organisations
We help organisations build lasting capacity for learning and impact.
Uplift your team’s capabilities and strengthen your organisation’s ability to drive sustainable change. We tailor our approach to your context and challenges, creating meaningful learning experiences that your team can apply straight away to strengthen the impact of your work.
Featured courses
Our Academy courses are designed and delivered by expert practitioners who work across industries and geographies. They’re practical, thoughtful and built to help changemakers and evaluators grow their skills with confidence. Learn MEL for the real-world.
Complete Guide to Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
Your end-to-end journey to build a strong understanding of the learning-centred approach to M&E.
Developmental Evaluation
Adopt a dynamic evaluation approach designed for complex, rapidly changing environments.
Most Significant Change
Engage in dialogue about what your stakeholders really want to achieve, whilst developing powerful stories of change.
Systems Transformation: Strategy and Evaluation
Gain the skills and the confidence to transform complex societal systems for more equitable outcomes.
Complete Guide to Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
Your end-to-end journey to build a strong understanding of the learning-centred approach to M&E.
Developmental Evaluation
Adopt a dynamic evaluation approach designed for complex, rapidly changing environments.
Most Significant Change
Engage in dialogue about what your stakeholders really want to achieve, whilst developing powerful stories of change.
Free resources
Explore our extensive range of free, on-demand resources. From practical guides and tools to templates, videos and detailed overviews, each resource is grounded in real-world practice. Browse the collection, pick what you need, and grow your toolkit; apply new ideas in your work today.
The Collective Noticing Method
This paper by Jess Dart introduces the Collective Noticing Method (CNM), a flexible way to spot and make sense of subtle shifts in complex or emergent initiatives. It supports shared learning and is especially useful in the "messy middle" of systems change.
Adaptive Progress Markers: Tracking Progress in Emergent Initiatives
Discover how Adaptive Progress Markers help track early signs of systems change, addressing the challenges of measuring progress in emergent initiatives. This practice paper by Jess Dart, Clear Horizon founder, steps out how and when to use Adaptive Progress Markers and offers tips for centring learning and accountability at the heart of complex initiatives.
Most Significant Change in 5 minutes
Most Significant Change technique is a participatory method for measurement and evaluation. It involves collecting and analysing stories of significant change to understand the impact of a program.
Why learn with us?
Our wide range of courses and learning resources provides you with the skills and the knowledge to boost your expertise, generate better outcomes, and advance your career.
With nearly two decades of experience designing and delivering hundreds of MEL plans and frameworks, workshops, and evaluations, you can rest assured you’re learning from experts in the field.
We deliver learning support to many levels of government, local and international NGOs and community organisations. From beginner to expert, we have courses to suit every practitioner.
Our subject matter experts are practitioners with extensive MEL experience who bring to the courses real-world examples and practical case studies to help you contextualise the learning.
We have an in-house team of learning designers and LMS experts who are continuously looking for ways to improve learning materials, accessibility, and overall learning experience.
We develop and regularly review our materials to include latest practices and innovative approaches, and design the user journey to maximise accessibility and ease of learning.
Our wide range of courses and learning resources provides you with the skills and the knowledge to boost your expertise, generate better outcomes, and advance your career.
Coaching
Personalised support to boost your learning experience
Coaching is a powerful way to embed learning and turn knowledge into immediate, practical action for your context. Whether you’re working through a course or navigating complex issues in your day-to-day role, our expert-led coaching creates space to reflect, problem-solve, apply and build confidence in your approach.
You can access coaching as an add-on to courses, or as a standalone offering at any time. Sessions are tailored to your needs, led by experienced practitioners, and available across time zones to suit professionals around the world. The focus is on helping you deepen your practice, strengthen decision-making, and make progress on the work that matters most.
Testimonials
The course content is addressing the missing gap in my knowledge that I wasn't able to pinpoint alone. I'm finding the readings, resources, and virtual sessions fantastic. This is the course I didn't know I needed. I wish I had done it 3 years ago in my last role. It would have helped me through so many challenges.
— Nicole Waru | Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager - Indigenous Programs, Movember
I absolutely loved the course and got SO much out of it. Huge thanks to you and the team for turning this course into such a terrific online offering. We’ve reimagined and redeveloped our MEL Framework and approach, and created a whole lot of tools to support it. The course certainly gave me a really good foundation to understand what we’re doing and to lead it all.
— Jess Hill
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