Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
- Quality Humanitarian Project Management & Implementation
- Emergency Preparedness & Early Action
- Beneficiary Selection
- Distributions
- Humanitarian Donors & Rapid Funding
- Partnerships & Coordination
- Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
- Markets in Emergencies
- Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- WASH in Emergencies
- Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
- Education in Emergencies
- Environment in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Market Assessments
- Labour Market Assessments and Employment
- Facilitation Approaches
- Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
- Value Chain Development
- Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
- Women's Economic Empowerment
- Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
- Green Market Approaches
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
- PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
- Child Protection and Well-Being
- Inclusion and gender
- Environment and Climate Change
- Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Introduction to Nutrition
- Nutrition Security Assessments
- Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
- Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
- Nutrition and WASH
- Nutrition and Gender
- Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- MEAL Planning at the Proposal Stage
- MEAL Planning during the Project Implementation
- Assessments
- Quantitative Data Collection
- Qualitative Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Evaluation
- Data Use and Learning
- Feedback and Response Mechanisms
- Data protection & management
- MEAL in Education and Skills
- Other Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality of your monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) processes. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
IndiKit is online guide on the use of hundreds of relief and development indicators across different sectors, including specific survey questions and practical tips based on from field experience.
MEAL Planning at the Proposal Stage
When can it be useful?
IndiKit is online guide on the use of hundreds of relief and development indicators across different sectors, including specific survey questions and practical tips based on from field experience.
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The M&E Universe is a free, online resource developed by INTRAC to support development practitioners involved in monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It consists of a series of short papers (2-6 pages) on different subjects related to M&E.
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An alternative to the logframe when it comes to mapping changes intended to be brought about by a project; in some cases, it can be more suitable to M&E planning than the logframe.
MEAL Planning during the Project Implementation
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A step-by-step guide to calculating the costs for reaching each output and outcome of your project.
Assessments
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This resource explains why it is important to use Sphere standards throughout the humanitarian programme cycle, and how to do so. The document starts with a section on how to use humanitarian standards in your context. This is followed by standalone but complementary chapters for Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.
When can it be useful?
The basic needs assessment questionnaire is taken from CaLP Guidance for Basis Needs Analysis.
Quantitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
This brief guide will help you determine the appropriate sample for your survey.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This brief guide will help you clarify and describe the methodology for your survey.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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A brief overview of mobile data collection (tools, advantages and disadvantages).
Qualitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
Guidance and practical tips for conducting individual interviews during surveys, needs assessments, evaluations etc.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This quality standard checklist (QSC) can be used when planning individual interviews, as well as for monitoring the performance of interviewers (whether PIN staff or external).
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This quality standard checklist (QSC) can be used when planning focus group discussions (FGDs) as well as for monitoring the performance of FGD facilitators (whether PIN staff or external).
Data Analysis
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This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning and analysing data in Excel. It can be used for training, as well as while analysing survey data.
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This links to the UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education.
Top of Form, which lists many useful resources for learning to use STATA (divided by topic).
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This links to an article which briefly introduces 3 software programmes which can be used to design randomized evaluations and analyse the data from them.
Evaluation
When can it be useful?
This paper outlines the different ways in which RTE has been defined and is understood to work. It analyses how RTE is similar to and different from other approaches to supporting evidence-informed action. It discusses when it is appropriate to use RTE and what is needed to make it work well.
When can it be useful?
This paper is intended to support development and humanitarian managers, evaluation functions and evaluators as they plan and implement Real-Time Evaluations and Real-Time Learning exercises of their respective organisation’s COVID-19 response, and of future humanitarian action.
When can it be useful?
A very comprehensive guide to designing and conducting evaluations of humanitarian interventions.
Data Use and Learning
When can it be useful?
An interesting and honest review of mistakes made and lessons learned during “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices” surveys; it is relevant to surveys in general, not just KAP.
When can it be useful?
This is an interactive platform which maps evidence gaps and highlights areas where there are few or no impact evaluations or systematic reviews. It is helpful to check before planning such evaluations, to avoid duplication of already existing work and to make optimal use of resources.
When can it be useful?
This paper is intended to support development and humanitarian managers, evaluation functions and evaluators as they plan and implement Real-Time Evaluations and Real-Time Learning exercises of their respective organisation’s COVID-19 response, and of future humanitarian action.
Feedback and Response Mechanisms
When can it be useful?
A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing beneficiary feedback mechanisms.
When can it be useful?
This resource can be used while designing and running accountable feedback mechanisms that can surface safeguarding concerns.
MEAL in Education and Skills
When can it be useful?
This package of materials includes key M&E tools for Education in Emergencies (EiE) including school checklists, baseline and endline tools, child participation tools, school assessment and selection tools, a sample Logframe and a needs assessment template, which can also be used as a basis for developing key informant interviews (KIIs), household surveys and focus group discussions (FGDs).
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This review presents a roadmap that guides users through four steps of planning and designing how distance learning can be monitored and evaluated. Featuring several case studies, including PIN's LNGB in Nepal.
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This toolkit provides practical participatory methods for engagement of children and youth in all steps of the program cycle. It includes tools for a) identification of risks/ problems/ issues and resources, b) prioritization of these risks/ problems/ issues c) analysis uncovering the root-causes of risks/ problems/ issues and d) planning for solutions.
Other Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
This is a checklist of steps to be taken when planning and conducting a survey aimed at assessing the prevalence of child malnutrition and mortality.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This checklist will help you monitor the quality of measurements for anthropometric surveys.
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Drafting a logframe? IndiKit's guidance on the use of Good Governance indicators can help you when developing CSO development, civic engagement and local governance programmes.
