M&E Resources

The MLE project works globally to raise awareness of the importance of and need for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). This page includes key M&E tools and resources published by a range of organizations.

Ressources

Le MLE Project travaille à la prise de conscience globale de l'importance et de la nécessité de la surveillance et de l'évaluation (Monitoring and Evaluation, M&E). Cette page inclut les outils essentiels M&E ainsi que les ressources publiées par une série d'organisations.

Cutting costs, boosting quality and collecting data real-time – Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Schuster C | Brito CP

2011

A 2010 Country Governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC)-funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with EpiSurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce cost, facilitate accuracy and accelerate implementation of a nationally-representative beneficiary survey of Guatemala‘s conditional cash transfer program.

Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective: A Training Package for Land Professionals

Sait S, Peters B, Jonsson A

2011

This training course covers the principles of the Gender Evaluation Criteria and illustrates how a land professional can use them to evaluate the gender equality of specific land tools, and make sure that gender is considered in the initial design of a tool.

Impact Evaluations and the 3ie: William Savedoff

2011

This podcast features Bill Savedoff, a senior partner at Social Insight, an international consulting firm with expertise in economic and political analysis of public policy. He explains how new impact evaluations are shaping development projects and policy.

Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations that make a difference

ODI Background Notes

ODI, ALNAP, 3ie

2011

This Background Note outlines key lessons on impact evaluations, utilization-focused evaluations and evidence-based policy. The Note synthesizes research by ODI, ALNAP, 3ie and others to outline eight key lessons for consideration by all of those with an interest in impact evaluation and aid effectiveness.

Maternal and Neonatal Directed Assessment of Technology [MANDATE]

RTI International

2011

This decision support tool helps inform effective allocation of technology development resources. By calculating the potential number of maternal and neonatal lives saved, the tool allows users to identify and compare the potential impact of a technology.

Monitoring & Evaluation Toolkit

Management Sciences for Health [MSH]

2011

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are key management functions of an organization or project. Together, they serve to support informed decisions, the best use of resources, and an objective assessment of the extent to which an organization’s or project's services and other activities have led to a desired result. The M&E Toolkit provides health project managers with basic information that can guide the creation of monitoring and evaluation practices that will improve the overall performance of projects and organizations.

New PEPFAR eLearning Courses

Global Health eLearning Center

2011

Four new PEPFAR eLearning courses are available on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health eLearning Center. They include Data Use for Program Managers, Economic Evaluation Basics, Geographic Approaches to Global Health, and PEPFAR Next Generation Indicators Guidance.

On-line Interactive Version of “Impact Evaluation in Practice”

The World Bank

2011

This resource provides a free on-line interactive version of the book.

Urban HEART: Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

World Health Organization, The WHO Centre for Health Development

2010

Urban HEART provides an opportunity for policy-makers from different sectors, and communities, to cooperate in using evidence to identify and prioritize interventions for tackling health inequities. Local chief executives are provided with a tool to lead and engage their governments in more efficient allocation of resources with a broad-based support for action.

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems. Better evidence, better policies, better development results.

Segone M

2009

This collection of articles by UNICEF discusses how to improve evidence-based decision making in developing countries through the use of M&E systems. While information on programmatic best practices is available, knowledge bases in developing countries still have significant gaps. This book forges the link between learning about evidence-based policymaking and the contributions that country-led M&E systems can make in supporting good decision making.