New Year, New Website 🎉

From why we’re called the 4th Wheel to how we approach MEAL—now in one place.

Hello and Happy New Year from all of us at 4th Wheel Social Impact 👋

We’re starting the year with something we’ve been working on for a while

This isn’t just a visual refresh. We’ve designed the site as a space that helps you move through MEAL without the overwhelm—no heavy jargon, no guesswork, just clarity.

Think of it as a place where you can move easily between:

• learning about MEAL as a sector

• seeing how it shows up inside real organisations

• reflecting on what it looks like in your own work

All in one place. Easy to navigate. Easy to return to.

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A quick pause before you explore…

Let’s start with a question we get all the time:

Why are we called the 4th Wheel?

If you’ve ever wondered what it means—or had your own theory—we’ve finally answered it with a short, simple video explainer on the website. This page also shares why we started 4th Wheel Social Impact 15 years ago, what the name really stands for, and how that philosophy shapes how we approach social impact work.

👉 Watch the explainer & read our story: https://www.the4thwheel.com/about-us

What you’ll find as you explore the site

MEAL, explained without the complexity

Our Resources bring together blogs, videos, and MEAL event updates—focused on monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning as an integrated practice.

• 📖 Blogs: https://www.the4thwheel.com/blogs

• 🎥 Videos: https://www.the4thwheel.com/videos

• 📅 MEAL Events: https://www.the4thwheel.com/event-list

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Stories from our work

The Our Work section gives a clear, structured view of the challenges organisations bring to us—and how MEAL systems come together to address them in practice.

👉 Explore our work: https://www.the4thwheel.com/our-work

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Tools to pause and reflect

Our M&E Quiz is one of the standout features on the site. It’s designed to help you stop, take stock, and reflect honestly on where your MEAL currently stands.

👉 Take the MEAL Quiz: https://www.the4thwheel.com/me-quiz

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Our e-store

You’ll also find our evaluation-store, where we’ve begun sharing practical resources—indicators, frameworks, and tools that you can download and adapt for your own work. More to come here over time.

👉 Browse the e-store: https://estore.the4thwheel.com/

This website isn’t meant to be skimmed once and forgotten.

We hope it becomes a space you return to—for clarity, learning, and direction—whether you’re a practitioner, researcher, collaborator, or simply curious about the development sector.

🔶 Start exploring the new website

👉 https://www.the4thwheel.com

Before you go, we’d love to hear from you:

• What did you think “4th Wheel” meant before watching the video?

• Which part of the website did you enjoy or find most useful?

• Is there something you’d like us to build more of?

Reply here on Substack—we’re listening.

Warmly,
Sharon & Payal