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Indicators: What are they and how do you recognise a good one?
"In 2020, Arqaam pored 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, drawing...
Why Informed Consent Matters in International Cooperation
"Questions can delve into people’s sexual reproductive health and activity, their income, family issues, and other sensitive topics. Hardly anyone thinks to themselves, “Would I give this info to a stranger knocking at my door?”" Nowadays, it’s easier than ever for...
How NGOs Can Safely and Securely Collect and Store Data
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
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms.”[1] As others have written before, logical framework approaches (LFAs) – aka, logframes – are often an annoyance. They are something that the ‘donor’ wants, and they serve as a...
What the Monitoring & Evaluation Industry Has Learned From COVID-19 So Far – TolaData Guest Post
"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 less...
What is the Gender Data Gap, and What Can We Do About It?
"When we don't have data, then we make assumptions. These assumptions typically revolve around a generic white man of 80kg. This can be dangerous in so many ways." Data. It’s all around us. Everything we do seems to contribute to increasing amounts of data. But...
How Our Free Monitoring and Evaluation Training Helps Small NGOs
'Even though they often have the best contextual knowledge for their area of operations, grassroots and small local organisations frequently face several challenges that their bigger or international counterparts do not face when it comes to receiving outside...
Why is Monitoring and Evaluation Important for NGOs?
'it’s important to understand how...funds are being used, what outcomes are resulting from these programmes, and the impacts of the programmes for stakeholders.' According to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2019, published by Development Initiatives,...