Six workshops you can run yourself,
written as plain text files
Each kit is one Markdown file. Import it into a live-workshop tool, or read it off the screen and run the session from a room. There is no deck, no login for participants, and nothing here you cannot edit.
They are sized for 45 minutes and up to 30 people, because that is what the free tier of Workshopy allows, and we would rather the constraint be visible than discovered halfway through. Every kit ends by pointing at the longer free course underneath it.
Four steps, about ten minutes of setup
You need an account to host. Participants do not.
1. Take the file
Download the .md file for the session you want. It is plain text. Open it in any editor and change anything — the examples, the timings, the quiz answers, the whole thing.
2. Import it
In Workshopy, create a workshop and import the file. A # heading becomes a step; #[quiz] becomes a graded quiz. Nothing else needs converting.
3. Run it live
Participants join with a six-character code from any device. They mark each step done or stuck; you see who is where without asking the room.
4. Keep the file
Export it back out afterwards with your edits. The document is the workshop, so there is no version of it locked inside somebody’s tool.
Six sessions
Each draws on a free ImpactMojo course. Each is written to be run by somebody who is not us.
The denominator decides →
Two people quote the same government table and disagree by nearly a factor of two. Participants do the arithmetic themselves on India’s Time Use Survey 2024, then write the denominator beside one of their own indicators. Asks what is this a fraction of.
8 steps · 2 questions · from Gender-Sensitive MEL
The assumption you didn’t write down →
The weakest part of most theories of change is an arrow everyone believes and nobody has stated. Participants find their own weakest arrow, then build a harm pathway for their own programme. Asks what would you see if this were failing.
8 steps · 3 questions · from the Theory of Change Studio
Indicators beyond the headcount →
Participants sort their own indicator table into delivery, reach and change, count the piles, and discover the shape of their own system. Then write one change indicator that could embarrass them. Asks can this tell us whether to stop.
8 steps · 3 questions · from MEL for Development
What an attribution claim can carry →
Three sentences about the same data, each claiming more than the last. Participants grade a real claim from their own reporting on a four-level ladder, then rewrite it at the level their design supports. Asks compared with what.
8 steps · 3 questions · from Causal Inference for Development
What your dataset refuses to count →
Every column was an argument settled before you got the file. Participants find the residual category in their own data, work out who is structurally absent, and trace one proxy back to the thing it stands for. Asks who could not appear here.
8 steps · 4 questions · from Data Feminism 101
The question that can do harm →
For teams collecting data on violence, debt, caste, status or health. Works through the WHO safety provisions that constrain the sampling design, then why a falling disclosure rate is the wrong outcome indicator. Asks what happens to her if the household finds out.
8 steps · 3 questions · from Gender-Sensitive MEL, Module 8
What these are not
They are not a substitute for knowing the material
A kit tells you what to put in front of a room and when. It does not tell you what to say when somebody pushes back on the third slide, and the sessions are built so that somebody will. Read the course each one comes from before you run it in front of people whose work you are asking them to re-examine.
They are not the paid workshops
Our Team Workshops are a different thing: three days, facilitated by us, with mentoring afterwards, at a flat cohort rate with a sliding scale. These kits are 45 minutes, facilitated by you, free, forever. Running the kits first is a perfectly good reason to decide you do not need us.
Take them, change them, run them
Use these however you like, including commercially and including without saying where they came from. If you improve one, we would like to see it — tell us — but that is a request, not a condition.