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We facilitate program design

We co-design programs and strategies. We're leaders in facilitating program logic / theory of change and bring this expertise into all our work. Our skilled facilitators will ensure that your workshops run smoothly with respectful engagement of all participants.

We develop evaluation frameworks

Leading in the program evaluation space for over 15 years, we're known for partnering with organisations to design and implement human-centred and robust monitoring and evaluation approaches for simple -- through to even the most complex.

We help your organisation evolve

When we work with you, we commit to helping your organisation develop clear and strategic outcomes and a clear pathway to achieving them. We are committed to setting your organisation up for the future so that you continue to learn and refine your strategy and embed a learning culture.

Our Team

Kristy Mulquiney

Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant

HR & Training Manager

Founding Director

Research Analyst

Personal Assistant & Administrator

Dr Bridget Roberts

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant

Dr Ellise Barkley

Principal Consultant

Research Analyst

Research Analyst

Principal Consultant

Nathan Delbridge

Senior Consultant

Lauren Siegmann

Senior Consultant

Angelos Blackwood

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant

Dr Jill Campbell

Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant

Training & Marketing coordinator

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant

Victoria Pilbeam

Lee-Anne Molony

Managing Director

Senior Consultant

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New Partnership Set to Bring Social Impact Measurement into the Digital Era

posted on 10 September 2018
Digital start-up Navigating Outcomes to join world-class evaluation company Clear Horizon in joint bid to transform Australian social impact landscape. There were many unknowns when Australian eva...

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Designing Rubrics for Evaluation

posted on 23 February 2018
Designing Rubrics for Evaluation Last week, I attended an Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) workshop on “Foundations of Rubric Design”. It was a thought-provoking workshop. Kystin Martens, the ...

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Updated 5 day Complexity Aware Monitoring and Evaluation, Learning based and Adaption - CAMELA

posted on 22 February 2018
Our lead facilitators Dr Jess Dart (founding director) and Carina Calzoni (Director) have made an exciting change to the format of Clear Horizon’s 5-day Complexity Aware Monitoring and Evaluation,...

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Join Clear Horizon and TACSI for an exciting training event - Register now! Limited spaces

posted on 15 February 2018
Join Clear Horizon and TACSI for a new 3-day training on bringing together the worlds of Design and Evaluation! For more information and to sign up check out the “Evaluation and Design” public tra...

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Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making?

posted on 14 February 2018
Byron Pakula and I presented yesterday on ‘ Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making?’ at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference . The presentation considered the lack of lear...

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Three Golden Nuggets from the Australian Aid Conference

posted on 14 February 2018
Damien Sweeney and I were fortunate enough to participate in the Australian Aid Conference 2018, hosted by the Crawford School at ANU. The conversations in the halls between panels were just as g...

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Clear Horizon's 2018 Eval-utions

posted on 07 February 2018
It’s that time of year again. The team at Clear Horizon have returned from their respective holidays—hiking the Andes nourished only by water and thoughts of the year to come; making prides of lion...

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We're Hiring - 3 short term contracts - DFAT Nauru

posted on 31 January 2018
Clear Horizon is seeking 3 Sector Specialists (education, public sector management and infrastructure) short-term, to undertake reviews of the Australian Government’s (DFAT’s) education, public se...

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We're Hiring! 3 roles available

posted on 18 January 2018
Clear Horizon Consulting Pty Ltd is a vibrant consultancy specializing in co-design, monitoring and evaluation. We have a fantastic team culture, are a value-based company and we make deliberate c...

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Evaluation consultants opportunities – Various positions: Clear Horizon

posted on 20 December 2017
Clear Horizon Deadline: Tuesday 16th January 2018 Clear Horizon is a vibrant consultancy business specialising in program design, evaluation and evaluation capacity building. The team is growing a...

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Design & Evaluation – We’re Better Together

posted on 12 December 2017
Last month Clear Horizon and The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) had a great time delivering our new and sold out course on reconciling the worlds of Human Centred Design (HCD) & e...

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Day 3: Washington AEA Conference #Eval17

posted on 13 November 2017
Day 3 started for me at 8am on evaluation failures. It was a very honest session, (felt a wee bit like giving confession) but a great way to open up the field differently. Stephanie Evergreen shar...

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Days 1 & 2: Washington AEA Conference #Eval17

posted on 10 November 2017
Wednesday afternoon at the #Eval17 AEA was quite extraordinary - I sat there with over 4,000 evaluators in the plenary as Kathy Newcomer, president of the AEA presented her crisp 7 challenges and ...

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Inspired by Michael Patton’s principle-focused evaluation Washington AEA Conference #Eval17

posted on 08 November 2017
I had the privilege of attending Michael Quinn Patton's workshop on principles-focused developmental evaluation. To be honest, it wasn't what I was expecting; I was thinking I would learn more abo...

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Developing Theories of Action through behaviour change knowledge and practice

posted on 15 September 2017
It was a privilege to present in front of a full room at AES 2017! Who knew so many people were interested in behaviour change! Slides from the presentation are here. Behaviour change intervention...

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Technology in M&E: Four questions to help you find your technology solution

posted on 13 September 2017
Ask M&E professionals about technology in M&E and you will get a mix of excitement and uncertainty. There is excitement about the possibilities that technology can offer, but uncertainty about whi...

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Interrogating the logic of evaluators’ influence

posted on 08 September 2017
The themes I noticed at #AES17 included quite a few disheartening ones: the powerlessness of evidence and knowledge (our fine evaluation products!) in the current socio-political environment; the ...

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AES conference 2017 Canberra Reflections

posted on 08 September 2017
Tired but encouraged after 5 days at the #AES17CBR conference. The keynote speakers were outstanding this year. Three main themes stood out for me. In different ways, all the keynote speakers chal...

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Of sustainability and reconciliation - AES conference 2017 Canberra

posted on 07 September 2017
There were two stand-out presentations for me at the #aes17CBR, which concludes in Canberra today. On reflection I’ve realised a large part of why these resonated with me has to do with the values...

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Understanding Failure to Manage Conflict

posted on 07 September 2017
“Should evaluators avoid conflict?” Anthea posed this incisive question while presenting her case study, only to be retorted by Scott that there is a “difference in managing conflict as opposed t...

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“Without becoming sustainability ready, we [evaluators] are not relevant” – Andy Rowe, AES Conference 2017 Canberra

posted on 06 September 2017
What a refreshing talk (call to arms?) from Andy, particularly at 4pm on Day 2 of such a thought-inspiring conference! Andy has thrown down the gauntlet to all of us to make sure that we remain r...

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Reflections on the Collaborate for Impact conference

posted on 21 July 2017
Just spent a stimulating three days in Canberra at the Collaborate for Impact conference. It’s all about Collective Impact , and it was great to see how the model is evolving to be more structure...

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Clear Horizon’s growing partnership with Solidaritas and upcoming joint training

posted on 21 June 2017
Over the last year Clear Horizon has formed a close working partnership with SOLIDARITAS, a niche M&E consultancy based in Jakarta, Indonesia. This partnership is built on a shared passion for ta...

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A deeper dive into design

posted on 20 June 2017
This year Clear Horizon has been continuing to learn about the nexus between the growing practice of Design Thinking in social and environmental interventions with evaluative practice. We’ve enjo...

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Powerful insights and stories of Most Significant Change taking place across Africa!

posted on 20 June 2017
Since joining, Clear Horizon earlier this year, I’ve really enjoyed engaging with clients on different ways to elicit and present program outcomes. An interesting and compelling way to collect pr...

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Organisational Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Masterclass recap

posted on 15 June 2017
Recently Clear Horizon ran a Masterclass entitled “Organisational outcomes and meaningful measures”. This Masterclass arose from of our own organisational strategic planning sessions where it beca...

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We are Hiring - Senior Evaluation Consultant - Aid Effectiveness / Trade & Inclusive Economic Growth

posted on 05 June 2017
Clear Horizon is a vibrant consultancy business specialising in program design, evaluation and evaluation capacity building. We work across all sectors, for all levels of government, non for profi...

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Evaluating complex social change programs

posted on 18 May 2017
I have been involved in evaluation since the early 2000’s and understand that it has been a discipline that has always understood the complexity of the world in which programs are designed and imp...

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Piloting a ‘light touch’ Episode Study

posted on 16 November 2016
Recently we have noticed a groundswell of interest in how to evaluate policy influence; a notoriously slippery thing to catch hold of. This is in part due to the multitude of forces that drive pol...

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Evaluator interrupted

posted on 25 October 2016
Last week I presented a keynote at the Australian Association for Environmental Education annual conference. The conference theme was “future making”. As a mega science fiction nerd, this got me ...

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‘Hold your guns, this is a Summit Workshop’

posted on 07 October 2016
In this blog one of our Senior Consultants Stuart Raetz shares his experience of Summit Workshops. A ‘summit workshop’ is a workshop that Clear Horizon often runs at the end of a collaborative out...

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Regional Landcare Facilitator Initiative Evaluation 2012

posted on 11 July 2016
The Regional Landcare Facilitator (RLF) Initiative is a federal Government initiative that works within the broader Australian Landcare movement to provide support for sustainable agriculture and ...

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Our Clients

We work with government at all levels, as well as with industry bodies, international development agencies, and local and international philanthropics and non-for-profit.