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We enable organisations to understand change, make better decisions, and drive impact in complex and emergent contexts.

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For over two decades, we have brought leading-edge thinking and innovation to the Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) field across social justice, environmental, and international development work.

We believe MEL is a practice for making progress visible, strengthening strategy, and supporting learning and adaptation over time. Our work is shaped by systems thinking, equity, decolonisation and planetary health, and delivered through deep partnerships with clients, allies and communities.

What we do

We work collaboratively with teams and communities to understand what meaningful progress looks like in their setting, and what kinds of evidence and learning will genuinely support better decisions. Our work draws on rigorous qualitative approaches such as Most Significant Change (MSC), paired with quantitative data to build a fuller picture of how change is unfolding. We share evidence-based insights through clear, accessible reporting, infographics, dashboards and sense-making processes - not just technical outputs. Our goal of building lasting capabilities is supported by the training we provide through our Academy and the data, visualisation, and systems services of our Digital team.
  • Develop MEL strategies and frameworks that make progress visible and support learning, adaptation and accountability over time. The focus is on practical systems that help teams reflect, adjust and make evidence-informed decisions.
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  • Deliver rigorous evaluation and impact studies suited to complex settings. This includes systems-aware, non-experimental approaches that help organisations measure outcomes and their contributions.
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  • Provide expert facilitation to help teams clarify intent, assumptions and change pathways through Theory of Change and program logic workshops. Facilitate program design processes, drawing on best practice co-design principles, coupled with a strong outcomes focus.
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  • Work alongside place-based teams and collaborations to facilitate evidence-based collective learning. These approaches centre partnership, context and shared learning across diverse actors.
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  • Support emergent work aimed at shifting the conditions that hold problems in place. Developmental evaluation and strategic learning approaches help teams learn in real time, adapt strategy and navigate complexity where outcomes are hard to predict.
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  • Tailored facilitation and support to help your organisation land an effective, systems-aware strategy grounded in measurable outcomes. We expertly weave together systems thinking, Theory of Change, futures thinking and deliberative engagement processes to ensure your strategy is effective and has broad support.
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  • Enable organisations to make evidence accessible, usable and timely. This includes data collection systems, dashboards and visualisation tools that bring together qualitative and quantitative insights to support learning, real-time decision-making and shared understanding across teams and partners.
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  • Share insights from complex work with clarity and purpose. We embed communication expertise within projects so ideas, evidence and learning are translated into messages that resonate with the right audiences. This involves shaping narratives, developing clear visual and written outputs, and supporting teams to communicate progress and impact to stakeholders.
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Broad expertise, shared foundation

Our advisory work is organised across three practice areas: Social Impact, Sustainable Futures, and International Development. Each practice area brings its own depth of sector expertise and specialist knowledge, while all are grounded in the same core foundations: learning-oriented and systems-aware measurement and evaluation.
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Social Impact

Our Social Impact practice focuses on work aimed at improving lives and advancing equity within Australian social systems. We support organisations tackling deeply interconnected challenges, where outcomes depend on relationships, services, policy settings and lived experience, not single interventions.

We work across health, aged care, mental health and wellbeing, education, youth services, early childhood development, and domestic, family and sexual violence prevention. Our approach is shaped by inclusion and legitimacy: partnering with people with lived experience, supporting disability and gender equity, and working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities in ways that reflect cultural authority and context.

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Sustainable Futures

Our Sustainable Futures practice supports organisations working at the intersection of environment, resilience and systems transition. The challenges here are often urgent and interconnected: climate adaptation, conservation, sustainable agriculture, disaster resilience, and the transformation of energy, industry and infrastructure systems.

This team draws on deep experience across climate change, natural resource management, water, circular economy and conservation. The work often involves balancing environmental outcomes with community priorities, policy constraints and long timeframes, supported by learning systems that can keep pace with complexity and change.

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International Development

Our International Development practice supports initiatives working across a range of sectors, including infrastructure, health, education, governance, inclusion, law and justice, climate and disaster resilience, humanitarian, economic development, and more. Our clients include bilateral aid agencies, partner governments, multilaterals, managing contractors, NGOs, research centres and universities. 

We support clients and partners to navigate complexity, strengthen learning, and better understand the impact of their work. Our collaborative and inclusive approach is grounded in our commitment to promoting equity and locally-led development.

Case studies

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Centring collective sense-making in complex MEL

If you’re working on a multi-program portfolio and want to shift MEL from compliance to collective sense-making and learning, this case study is for you.
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Turning environmental data into interactive visual dashboards

Clear Horizon partnered with Green Adelaide to turn their years of collected environmental data into interactive public dashboards, making the science behind a greener Adelaide more engaging, transparent, and accessible.
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A slow-cooked approach to evaluating community-led change

Our Town was established to address that by shifting power, centre lived experience, and creating the conditions for community-led change in rural towns.

Who we work with

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Clear Horizon works with a wide range of purpose-driven organisations, from all levels of government departments to multilateral agencies and non-profits, foundations, philanthropies and community partners. Our clients range from local initiatives through to large-scale and international programs, working across social, environmental and development priorities.

Testimonals

Over the past three years, the Clear Horizon team has played an integral role in evaluating Multicultural Communities Council of SA’s community-led initiatives, including the Multicultural Men’s Mental Health Community Connections Discovery Project and the Taking Care of Me Health Literacy Project. The Adelaide-based team has consistently demonstrated cultural responsiveness by taking the time to listen, learn and adapt evaluation processes that respect the lived experiences and voices of CALD communities. Working alongside community connectors and Health Champions, they have co-designed measurement frameworks and participatory evaluation tools that genuinely reflect community realities. Clear Horizon’s approach, grounded in collaboration, humility and continuous learning has strengthened our ability to measure impact in ways that are culturally safe, meaningful and aligned with our vision for community-led health and wellbeing.
— Ukash Ahmed, Multicultural Communities Council SA

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