Monitoring and Evaluation

Seven tips to decolonize your MEL practice, by Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell

We are Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) professionals with the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy and governance worldwide. Though not experts on decolonizing evaluation, we recently reflected on our practices and identified 7 Hot Tips to decolonize MEL:   Hot Tips: Acknowledge MEL’s …

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gLOCAL Evaluation Week: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas by Shaha Zehra and Leonardo Lemes

We are Shaha Zehra, Evaluation Consultant and Leonardo Lemes, Senior Operations Officer, both writing from the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and affiliated with the CLEAR Initiative – Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results. In June 2019, the CLEAR Initiative organized the inaugural gLOCAL Evaluation Week with an aim to reach more people in more places by fostering local, …

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Our Story is Their Story: Increasing community engagement in project monitoring in the community of Tumbit Melayu in Berau, Indonesia by Miki Tsukamoto

Hello AEA members! My name is Miki Tsukamoto and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Video has proved to be a useful data collection tool to engage communities to share their feedback on the impact of projects and programmes in the International …

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PFE Week: Anchoring a complex program with overarching principles by Marah Moore

Hi there! I am Marah Moore, the founder and director of i2i Institute (Inquiry to Insight). We are based in the high desert mountains of Northern New Mexico, and we work on evaluations of complex systems locally, nationally, and internationally. Since 2008 I have been the lead evaluator for the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research Program …

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Abdul Majeed on the Importance of Clarifying the Concept of Evaluation

Hi, I am Abdul, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at FEFA organization in Kabul. The lessons learned are based on my own experience as I had an opportunity to establish an M&E department for the first time at FEFA organization in Kabul. I Monitored the Election Observation Mission ($ 3.5 million) by deploying and providing trainings …

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Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock on Building MEAL Competencies

Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Building on our previous blog dated October 20, Embracing an Organizational Approach to ECB, we’d like to describe the next step in our ongoing MEAL capacity building journey: the development of …

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Labor Day week: Lauren Workman and Kelli Kenison on Honoring Ruth P. Saunders

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Hello! We are Lauren Workman (Research Assistant Professor) and Kelli Kenison (Clinical Assistant Professor), at the Core for Applied Research and Evaluation in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. …

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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña Advancing Evaluation of Climate Change in Latin America by Bringing Together Diverse Stakeholders

We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …

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Celeste Brubaker on Designing a Standardized Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Applicable across Multiple Programs

Hi! My name is Celeste Brubaker and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at IREX. IREX is a US-based nonprofit organization working to improve lives through international education, professional training, and technical assistance. In our education programs division we have a portfolio of seven student programs (in which international young leaders complete intensive U.S. …

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Adam Kessler on Why Evaluations Fail – The Importance of Good Monitoring

My name is Adam Kessler, and I work with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). The DCED has developed a monitoring framework called the “DCED Standard for Results Measurement”, which is currently used by over a hundred private sector development projects across five continents. This blog provides some lessons learned on why evaluators need …

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