Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL)

The only tool you need for all your MERL needs!

Merlin offers a comprehensive MERL solution that is both user-friendly and intuitive. With Merlin, you can efficiently manage your interventions, enabling you to make timely and informed decisions.

Why Merlin?

Merlin enables development organizations and programmes to adaptively manage their interventions, allowing them to change strategies, plans, and activities rapidly in response to new information. Merlin acts as a nerve centre for the project, providing access to accurate, insightful and timely information.

With Merlin, a project will be able to carry out its various functions (project management, data management, data analysis, data reporting, knowledge management, etc.) from a single, unified source. Owing to its tight integration, all the various functions will work seamlessly as data and information can move from one module to another effortlessly.

Features

Merlin consists of 5 integrated modules that offer a centralized solution for importing data, creating custom reports, managing interventions, designing research, aggregating results, and storing project-related documents. Say goodbye to scattered data and hello to efficient project management with Merlin!

Data Management

Data Management module for importing data from external sources (Excel, KoboToolbox, etc.), creating new data tables with data validation, creating custom reports from existing data, etc.

Intervention

Intervention module for designing and managing all aspects of an intervention from developing the concept note to designing theories of change to reporting results

Research

Research module for designing and managing all aspects of research from developing the research design to analysing and presenting data. This module helps to keep all information pertaining to a research in a single location.

Aggregation

Aggregation and VFM module for aggregating results across all interventions and generating VFM ratios. This module is essential for donor reporting and keeping an eye on the overall health of the project as in terms of progress against the Logframe and VFM targets.

Knowledge Library

Knowledge Library/Hub for storing all project-related documents and information in a single repository.