We’re passionate about elevating the efforts of social changemakers to co-create a better world
Why work with us
Inspired by the vision of sustainable prosperity (societies where everyone thrives within planetary boundaries), RM3 Consulting is an individual (solo) enterprise dedicated to helping social actors and changemakers like you clarify, measure, and report on the impact of your program on the people and/or the piece of the planet that it serves.
Not for its own sake but so that you can leverage the evidence and related tools to:
- make appropriately-informed decisions that improve program performance and help achieve the most optimal, meaningful impact;
- strengthen your program’s storytelling into a credible and compelling narrative about its ambition, strategy, and results;
- build trust and credibility;
- stand out to program investors — in a good way (attract consistent funding and other investment and strong partnerships); and, ultimately,
- deepen your program’s positive impact.
Guided by our commitment to excellence and by our values of inclusion, deep listening, and collaborative action, we take you from where you are to where you’d like to be so that you can better achieve your strategic objectives.
Along the way, we bring empathy, support, and a healthy dose of lightheartedness to help even the most overstretched social impact program leader build a solid foundation for results measurement and reporting success and develop related reflexes that enable them to thrive.
How we help — our core solutions
Whether your social impact program happens to be funded and/or steered as an international development, foundation, nonprofit, corporate social responsibility (CSR), entrepreneurial, or government initiative, we* support you to:
- design/refine and implement effective and reliable monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and processes (including value-for-money (VfM) frameworks);
- conduct evaluations and other types of program assessments;
- undertake quality primary or secondary research; and
- overall successfully manage for results (MfR).
Whatever form of collaboration you’re interested in — whether consulting or advisory/coaching —, our solutions deliver you the results you want and need.
What makes us different
What sets the RM3 team apart is our deep grounding in our values, our unique process, and our rich experience.
Deep grounding in our values
We are guided by our commitment to excellence and values of inclusion, deep listening, and collaborative action. These inform our philosophy about, and our approach to, our work, and we translate them into action both in client service delivery and in our operations.
Our values-in-action practices give us a deep understanding of what you’re going through as a social impact program leader and equip us to deliver robust and practical solutions. They also help us take program results measurement and reporting from an extractive exercise to a giving opportunity that simultaneously honors the gifts that everyone brings to the table, aligns with the principles of data justice, and helps you thrive without an ongoing need for our direct involvement.
Our unique process
While most specialists in our area of expertise start with theories of change, logic models, and other technical tools of the trade, we lead with curiosity. (We have so much to say about this, we wrote an entire blog article about it — read it here — and it shows up regularly in our content.)
Only after we have a clear understanding of your challenges and goals do we offer a solution. (And if we realize that what you face and how we help don’t align, then we’re honest about that, too, and we do what we can to get you the support you need.)
Whereas other M&E specialists — and let’s be honest, previous versions of ourselves — over-focus on rigor, our solutions are designed to be both robust and practical, aligning with your values, mission, and context. That way, you get to brag credibly about your program’s achievements and learnings, without the journey to get there having been arduous.
We’re particularly passionate about collaborating on programs that serve young people, women, and the environment.
And we’re not satisfied until we get our clients the results they want and need. We win when you experience ‘wins’ like these:
- Gain fresh clarity on your program’s ambition and strategy, (re)discovering its transformative potential.
- Strengthen your confidence that you’re co-creating meaningful wellbeing in the places you work while also strengthening your brand and the sustainability of your organization.
- Demonstrate accountability to program investors and participants.
- Optimize program learning and make evidence-based steering decisions that enhance the effectiveness of program adaptations.
- Communicate your program’s results and impact in coherent, credible, and compelling fashion, effectively showcasing the difference it makes.
- And, thanks to all the above, attract funding and other forms of investment, support, and partnerships and gain more time to focus on core program activities and deepen your positive impact on the people and/or the piece of the planet you serve.
Our rich experience
Our principal’s work has spanned multiple sectors, including but not limited to: agriculture; biodiversity finance; climate change adaptation and mitigation; communication for development (C4D); education; financial sector development (FSD); governance; health; human rights; land; livelihoods/social protection; oil and gas; public finance; and tourism.
Having successfully collaborated on programs implemented in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and the Pacific, we have both remote and in-country experience.
We’re excited at the possibility of partnering with you to maximize the positive, transformative social impact of your program!
So get in touch and let’s discuss how we can serve you.
Meet the M&E/MfR nerd at the helm of RM3 Consulting: Kandi Shejavali
The solo enterprise RM3 Consulting is led by me, Kandi Shejavali, an NYU grad with a multi-cultural background that spans the ‘Global North’ and the ‘Global South’ and extensive international experience. I’m passionate about the promise held by monitoring and evaluation (M&E) — and, more broadly, managing for results (MfR) — to elevate the efforts of social impact program implementers.
I’ve gained rich experience collaborating on programs implemented in multiple countries around the world. My approach seeks to not only provide program leaders with insights that demonstrate program results (or, as I like to put it, how close or far we are to the kind of society we want to see) and that guide decisions aimed at deepening meaningful impact but also to itself help co-create positive social impact.
My ‘why’? I’m driven by a desire to be part of changing the world for the better — meaningfully and durably. To me, this means moving toward a society that is people- and earth-friendly in the most holistic sense possible. It is a vision that puts Life, in all its forms, at the core and that is grounded in presence (my experience is that being in presence can result in better doing, including in doing M&E better, a perspective that is further informed by my training in the Human Potential model).
And M&E doesn’t have to be complicated or arduous to be effective and transformative. I specialize in the design and implementation of robust yet readily implementable M&E frameworks. Guided by my values of inclusion, deep listening, and collaborative action, I take a practical approach that aligns with your mission, makes the most of the program’s context, and avoids creating additional layers of complexity.
If that sounds appealing to you, I invite you to grab some resources or get in touch so we can talk about how we might collaborate.
Yours in co-creating a world of wellbeing for all,
Kandi
A P.S. OR TWO:
p.s. You can read more about my approach to M&E in this interview granted to the team at TolaData (where you’ll learn that, aside from M&E/MfR, I also like to read and dance and eat good food…yes, M&E/MfR nerds dance, too!).
p.p.s. This is what one of my clients said about collaborating with me: “Ms. Shejavali quickly took ownership of her responsibilities and carried them out with the highest level of professionalism and efficiency. First and foremost, she was able to establish productive relationships with a diversity of development partners. … These relationships were sustained throughout and beyond Ms. Shejavali’s stay…, reflective of her strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, warm and friendly personality, responsiveness to explicit and implicit issues, and comprehensive technical knowledge of development issues.” – Multilateral client (multi-sectoral program in sub-Saharan Africa). To read more client reviews, click here.
NOTES:
*The royal “we” used on this website and on other RM3 Consulting platforms mostly refers to me, Kandi Shejavali, M&E/MfR nerd and sole owner of RM3 Consulting. The “we” is used not because I’m acting royal 😊 but for enhanced noun/pronoun agreement and also to convey the eventuality of putting a team together for assignments necessitating a team rather than an individual expert.
