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Mel Harwin

Location:
Australia
Languages:
English
Issues:
Climate Change, Child Welfare, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Economic Injustice, Technology & Data, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
Expertise:
Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Designing impact guides, Impact evaluation
Cultural/racial identity:
White
Self identification:
Woman/female

Bio

I am a dedicated impact strategy, measurement and evaluation consultant with significant experience and understanding of community-led, cross-cultural design, evaluation and impact measurement and reporting. I am committed to supporting film teams, community organisations, and art and cultural projects in achieving any mission to design and measure the impact of campaigns, activities and advocacy, and often, this is a lateral exercise to explore beyond intended achievements to relationships of contributive changes and systems change outcomes. 

I have 18 years of expertise and experience in providing relevant, safe, inclusive participant-led approaches for the design, development, capacity and implementation of impact projects and impact measurement frameworks, systems, processes, tools and templates. I have spent the past five years working at the intersection of technology, digital transformation, media, storytelling, organisational capacity building and impact measurement. 

Relevant education, training and experience: 
BA Community Development, Murdoch University 2013 
MA Creative Writing, Macquarie University Current 
Decolonisation Workshop - garuwa.com Genevieve Grieves (She/Her) 2023 
Inaugural Impact Producing Program, Documentary Australia 2023 Impact Producing - (Malinda Wink) AFTRS 2021 
Innovative Leadership Program - Hargraves Institute 2021 
Lean Approaches to Measure Social Impact, Acumen Academy 2018 Data Analysis in Qualitative Research - UTS 2015 
Most Significant Change Technique - Clear Horizons 
2013 Program Logic, Clear Horizons 2013 
Financial Management for NGOs, Mango 2012 
Cross-Cultural Communication - ANU, 2010 

To date, my work has been primarily focused on cross-cultural or community-led change settings both internationally and nationally.