A Guide for Creating Effective Progress Reports
Writing reports can often feel like a tedious task. We’ve all been there – staring at a blank page, struggling […]
Indicators, Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting, Results Based Management
5 Pillars of Results Managment
Results are great. Results Based Management is GREAT! Not all would agree, I know. The reason: it is not done
Planning for M&E, Results Based Management
The results chain: a beginner’s guide
Monitoring and Evaluation are about measuring and tracking results. That is why it is important to understand what results are, and how to distinguish between different levels of
Policy advocacy
Measuring policy advocacy
Monitoring policy work is tricky. But it doesn’t have to be. It’s not impossible – and certainly can be useful.
How to formulate strong outputs
Outputs are arguably not the most important level of the results chain. It is outcomes that should be the focus
The 5-Step Guide to measure impact
Impact. You know the feeling don’t you – you’ve been working on a brilliant initiative, and then someone turns up
Indicators: choose the right angle
Once we have agreed on a clever, limited set of indicators, all seems good. However, we are not yet there. For most indicators, we can choose a specific ‘angle’.
Use change language in reports
An engaging report uses ‘change language’ instead of action language. Hunh? Ok, it’s not as complicated as these big words
Communication, Reporting
Five tips for good report writing
Do you hate report writing? Fed up with writing long, detailed reports that nobody seems to read? But the truth
Theory of Change
7 principles of a Theory of Change
A good theory of change (ToC) is based on seven principles: 1. Repeat doing it until you get it right,
Planning, Results Based Management
A Theory of Change
Probably as an inevitable result of the buzz in the past few years, many Theories of Change are often useless.
Adaptive programming, Innovation
Stop overthinking: Minimum Viable Product
MINIMUM WHAT?!? Ok. What are we talking about? A minimum viable product – MVP in short – is a product with just
Innovation, Planning
Innovative programme design
It has always been clear to me: Monitoring and Evaluation depends to a large extent on how development or government programmes are planned
Data collection, Measurement
The Age of Data
Data, information and knowledge Professional Monitoring and Evaluation is based on hard facts: data, information, knowledge and understanding. Let us take
Data collection
Our toolbox for primary data collection
To collect primary data (data that we need to collect first ourselves), we can rely on a rather sophisticated toolbox– largely from social sciences – that
Measurement
Measuring = reducing uncertainty
A lot of what we do in Monitoring and Evaluation is related to measuring. And that’s the problem: Many of us
Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring? Evaluation? Isn’t it the same?
Don’t be fooled. The fact that the terms Monitoring and Evaluation often go together and are called “M&E” is somewhat misleading.
Uncategorized
Mini course in Monitoring and Evaluation
Are you new to Monitoring & Evaluation? Or do you want to briefly brush up your knowledge on key concepts
Uncategorized
Want to be a Monitoring & Evaluation professional?
Do you already work in M&E? Or do you consider building a career in M&E? My advice: Do it! To
Innovation, Monitoring and Evaluation
M&E needs to change. We need to change.
Monitoring and Evaluation is an exciting area of work because it is currently undergoing rapid changes. Countries and organizations are increasingly