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
- 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
- Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
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
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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
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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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A step-by-step guide to calculating the costs for reaching each output and outcome of your project.
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A useful resource on how to ensure that M&E processes are gender-inclusive and gender-sensitive.
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.
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The basic needs assessment questionnaire is taken from CaLP Guidance for Basis Needs Analysis.
Quantitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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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
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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 is a link to the “R project”, which offers a free, integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display.
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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).
Evaluation
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A very comprehensive guide to designing and conducting evaluations of humanitarian interventions.
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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.
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This RTE of FAO’s humanitarian response to COVID-19 aims to: i) assess the relevance, timeliness, coherence, inclusiveness and business continuity practices of FAO’s humanitarian response; and ii) identify good practices and lessons learned to inform the design and implementation of future similar interventions. The RTE will also feed into the UN’s Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the GHRP
Data Use and Learning
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This resource summarizes lessons learned from PIN's programs focusing on information management systems
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A collection of examples of how PIN approaches accountability in its work.
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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.
Feedback and Response Mechanisms
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A collection of examples of how PIN approaches accountability in its work.
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A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing beneficiary feedback mechanisms.
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This resource can be used while designing and running accountable feedback mechanisms that can surface safeguarding concerns.
Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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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.
