The TAP Room is a small research, evaluation and learning consultancy founded in 2019 as a vehicle for collaboration to support complex social and systems change. We believe that by taking a participatory and power-aware approach with a strong learning focus, our research and evaluation work can provide valuable support to activists, civil society organisations, governments and donors to navigate the complex and often messy power dynamics and politics of social change. We do this in a number of ways, from placing a strong emphasis on learning in mid-term and end term evaluations, to working in a longer term evidence generation and learning accompaniment model where we support practitioners and policymakers to engage with existing and emerging evidence to shape their current and future strategies and tactics. We apply power analysis to the way in which we work both to help navigate the politics of social change “out there” in society, but also in the way in which power dynamics within programmes play a part in the effective delivery.
The TAP Room brings together skills, knowledge and many years’ experience working on complex governance and human rights programmes as evaluators, researchers, grant makers and practitioners. Collectively we bring substantial experience with grassroots, national and transnational civil society organisations, governments and donors to build evidence and facilitate learning to support citizen empowerment and responsive governance in many different countries across the world.