Meet Our Team
Jerushah Rangasami, Owner and Director
Jerushah has extensive experience in strategy planning and development, particularly through the use of Theory of Change as a foundation for both organisational strategy and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks. As a MEL specialist, she has supported approximately 350 organisations ranging from large global institutions to small community-based organisations in building their MEL frameworks, and facilitated participatory strategic planning processes for the same profile of organisations, and specifically with global and regional grantmaking organisations and networks. Her approach centralises a Theory of Change as the skeleton for strategic planning and MELplanning - identifying and articulating the desired change, the pathways to impact, and aligning programme activities with outcomes.
Pilisa Plamana, Junior Consultant
Pilisa Plamana is a detail-oriented researcher and evaluator dedicated to evidence-based inquiry within the field of socio-economic development. Based in Cape Town, she specializes in both qualitative and quantitative research methods to generate insights that inform policy and practice.
What we've done
Coordinating complex, multi-country research and evaluation studies, involving fieldwork in what has sometimes been challenging contexts. We are adaptable, we keep a positive, collaborative attitude, we are culturally sensitive, and we always deliver quality results. We have strong qualitative and quantitative analytic skills, as well as ability to analyse findings against context due to our extensive experience conducting realist evaluations. We are particularly interested in strategic reviews, which allow for meta-thinking, cross-programme learning, and organisation-wide learning.
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September 2016: Monitoring and measuring evidence uptake and use, presented by 3ie
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September 2016: Verifying the next big idea: replication’s role in development policymaking, presented by 3ie
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October 2015: Innovations in M&E, presented by Prof Patricia Rogers
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2013: Theory of change and theory of action, presented by Prof Patricia Rogers
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June 2011: Effective communication and stakeholder engagement, presented by ODI
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August 2010: HIV and logic models
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October 2009: Impact Pathways methodology, presented by Dr Sophie Alvarez 2008: Impact evaluations, presented by Prof Howard White
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July 2009: Mixed methods in evaluation, presented by Prof Jennifer Greene
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March 2009: Realist evaluation and realist synthesis, presented by Prof Patricia Rogers March 2009: The MSC technique, presented by Dr Jess Dart
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March 2009: Building a results-based M&E framework, presented by World Bank
Attendance at a three week professional development course (mini MBA course) held at the Maryland Women in Information Technology Centre at the University of Maryland and Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, USA. The course included training on:
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Marketing and Communications
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Operations
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Financial Management
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Negotiation
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Human Resources
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Positioning statements
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Business models
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Intellectual property
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Start-up capital and finance.
Values and Principles
Impact Consulting’s work is always underpinned by the following principles:
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theory-based: testing the extent to which the theory of change/goals and objectives are realised on the ground, and other effects that present, and suggest revisions to the theory based on the findings.
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participatory and inclusive: with engagement with necessary stakeholders through all phases. We will aim for inclusion of all stakeholders and meaningful consultation with affected and involved communities/groups, and co-creating plans, tools and reports as much as possible.
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grounded in a strong feminist lens: We are acutely aware of how power functions, and we use methodologies which both make power visible and help our clients to confront and transform it.
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Using a ‘realist’ lens: not only looking at “what works?” and “what doesn’t work?”, but “what works for whom, in what contexts, and how?”. We will consider context in all aspects of the study.
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utilisation-focused: producing findings and following processes that are useful and build capacity.