Blog
2025: A Year of Walking Alongside — 2026 Aspirations
January 2026 | 5 min read
Chief Navigator Elaine reflects: Over the years, I’ve written countless guides and frameworks, yet I’ve learned that even the clearest guidance can fall apart when it meets real-life complexity. As I reflect back on 2025, I share why coaching and accompaniment or walking alongside has become central to my work—helping people make sense of static guidance in dynamic, unpredictable contexts. I reflect on what it has meant to walk alongside others in feminist MEAL journeys, and what this means for Elevating Voices for Change moving into 2026.
Reimagining MEAL Through a Feminist Spectrum
July 2025 | 2 min read
Together with gender equality specialists Anna Du Vent and Jenn Donville, Elevating Voices for Change is sharing a feminist-MEAL spectrum that they have co-developed with colleagues from different organizations over the past five years. This tool is designed to help organizations reflect on and strengthen their feminist and gender transformative approaches to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning in international development and humanitarian aid projects.