Why RADIQUAL (and my politics)
Sanjukta Moorthy (Sun-yook-ta)
Decolonial and Participatory M&E | Intersectional DEI | Challenging power by practicing RADIQUAL approaches to social impact
What is RADIQUAL?
RADIQUAL is a manifesto, framework, and methodology I developed in 2018 and use across my M&E work. It also informs how I run my business.
The Course
I prepared a course bringing The RADIQUAL Manifesto, The RADIQUAL Framework, and The RADIQUAL Methodology to M&E and social impact.
It collects my experiences and the lessons I’ve learned from a decade in our industry. It looks at how we design our projects, do M&E, and engage with each other and our communities. It’s inspired by participatory action research, localisation, community-led movements like #Shiftthepower, and many others.
I'm excited to launch 3 cohorts starting in July - you can find out more about the courses and register here!
I wanted to build a new framework that would represent my values, and how I practice innovation in PMEL and JEDI+. The framework was nameless for a long time – it just existed.
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When it came around to finding a name for it, since I was sharing it with clients and using it more publicly in my work, I wanted something that aligned with my political beliefs and that would contain acronyms. (I am also Leslie Knope in real life, and a sucker for a good acronym.)
My Politics
I am politically liberal, and some of the values I hold mark me as a ‘progressive’ or ‘radical’, depending on who you talk to.
Over the years it’s become a real badge of honour. I’m not sure I’d agree with the label itself though, since I don’t see what’s particularly radical about my beliefs and practices.
I don’t see what’s radical about needing to blow up the entire system and start from scratch. To calling out performative allyship and calling for people to translate their supposed values into action.
Or to make reparations for historical injustices and war crimes, to teach colonial history and the transatlantic slave trade in their full brutal truth so we hopefully never make these mistakes again. I don’t see what’s radical about making every company and organisation adhere to truly sustainable values and a circular economy rather than destroying the planet and mass consumption. Rebuilding the tax system to make sure Starbucks and Amazon don’t ruin everything and run their business with human, labour, and environmental rights is just common sense.