[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by sharing on the ground learning and experience. This series is produced by Dena Lomofsky of Southern Hemisphere. The first…
[Editor’s note: This post is the first of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by sharing on the ground learning and experience. This series is produced by Dena Lomofsky of Southern Hemisphere] Implementing M&E…
On 9 Jun, 2014 By Vanesa Weyrauch
With Comments Off on Cry for help: monitoring, evaluating and learning in the South, how can we do it better?
Catherine Fisher´s post on our Lessons learned paper as well as Antonio Capillo´s points regarding M&E of capacity building activities have made me reflect more deeply on how we can better grapple the way we “measure” what we achieve through…
On 16 May, 2014 By Tomás Garzón de la Roza
With Comments Off on The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State
This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and contest the central actors of the regulatory state, even though they are ostensibly well outside of it”….
[Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Wenny Ho, researcher and facilitator based in the Netherlands. This post is based on her article titled “Evidence creation through Knowledge Integration“.] Increasing the variety of perspectives has proven to deliver more…
I have written here on what are the elements of an effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system for capacity building (CB) activities. However, we live in a complex world, which is less boring (more stressing?) also because of its…
On 25 Apr, 2014 By Antonio Capillo
With Comments Off on On Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Capacity Building activities – methodologies
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Antonio Capillo, M&E Officer at INASP]. I have already written on this post on Lessons learned on promoting better links between research and policy in Latin America (Weyrauch 2013). In this second post,…
In a previous post, I discussed why I think that the objective of informing policy should be considered from the onset of a research project. Since then, I have been reflecting on how to go about changing the way researchers…
On 19 Mar, 2014
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We are ready to re-frame the way we think and talk about how communications can contribute for research to inform public policies. We need to think more about ‘networked communications’, which means communicating with others, instead of crafting plans, strategies…
On 14 Nov, 2013 By Natalia Aquilino
With Comments Off on Nine challenges towards think tanks evaluation in Latin America
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Natalia Aquilino, Director of the influence, Monitoring and Evaluation Programme at CIPPEC, with Leandro Echt’s collaboration.] Consensus regarding evaluation relevance as a transparency and accountability strategy is rising for Latin American think tanks….