Indicators: What are they and how do you recognise a good one?

Data, Monitoring & Evaluation

“In 2020, Arqaam poured through thousands of indicators in its efforts to develop the Logframe Lab tool, a web application that helps organisations build their project’s logframe. Logframe Lab’s algorithms match a project idea with the most relevant metrics,...

Why Informed Consent Matters in International Cooperation

Data, Gender

Questions can delve into sexual reproductive health and activity, income, family issues and other sensitive topics. Think to yourself, “Would I give this information to a stranger knocking at my door?” Nowadays, project organisers can easily collect large...

How NGOs Can Safely and Securely Collect and Store Data

Data, Monitoring & Evaluation

Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in the development and humanitarian aid sectors want to be sure their projects are making an impact. In order to track these impacts, NGOs rely on data collected through a variety of methods. By ‘data’, we mean everything...

Logframes: Flawed, but Necessary Tools

Data, Logframes, Monitoring & Evaluation

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms.”[1] Logical framework approaches (LFAs) – aka, logframes – are often an annoyance. A typical requirement of donors, they often serve as a tick-the-box exercise for managers in charge of...

What the Monitoring & Evaluation Industry Has Learned From COVID-19 So Far – TolaData Guest Post

Data, Gender, Monitoring & Evaluation

“The pandemic’s social and economic impacts will be disproportionately felt by women and girls in the long-term. Women are already experiencing worse impacts from lay-offs, school closures, increased gender-based violence, increased caregiving expectations, and...