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Bridging frameworkers and circlers: new ways of thinking about policy and evidence?

On 23 Apr, 2015 By Vanesa Weyrauch With 0 Comments

This is the third post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity paradigm as a key framework to tackle the challenges and questions shared by many of us interested in the interaction between research and…

Monitoring and Evaluation: an Integral Part of the Organizational Strategy

On 14 Apr, 2015 By Albana Rexha With 1 Comment

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Albana Rexha, Research Fellow at Group for Legal and Political Studies. This post is part of a series of reflections from participants and facilitators of the Online training to strengthen M&E&L on policy influence in…

e-Reflections on M&E&L and lessons from P&I´s online course

On 31 Mar, 2015 By Ulviyya Mikayilova With 0 Comments

Editor’s note: This post was written by Ulviyya Mikayilova, Policy Unit manager at the Center for Innovations in Education (CIE), from Azerbaijan. In 2013, a small Policy unit on Social Policy was set up at CIE with the support of…

The role of evidence in policy making: “The demand for empirical evidence depends largely on decision makers’ training, background and profile” (part 2)

On 12 Mar, 2015 By Diego Gonnet With 0 Comments

[Editor’s Note: This is the second part of the interview with Diego Gonnet, Director of the Department of Information for Management and Open Government at the Direction of Management and Evaluation, Office of Planning and Budget, Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay. He…

Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches

On 16 Sep, 2014 By Mari-Lise du Preez With 2 Comments

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Mari-Lise du Preez. She served as programme manager at the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme – a policy research programme of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). She is currently on…

M&E systems: the importance of adopting a systems approach to implementing M&E systems

On 10 Jul, 2014 By Dena Lomofsky With 2 Comments

[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…

Cry for help: monitoring, evaluating and learning in the South, how can we do it better?

On 9 Jun, 2014 By Vanesa Weyrauch With Comments Off

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…

Lesson # 17: M&E is very different if it´s embedded in a learning approach

On 8 May, 2014 By Vanesa Weyrauch With Comments Off

Monitoring and evaluating capacity building (CB) is still a challenge to many similar endeavors. There is no single response to this challenge. There are also diverse aspects to be measured. According to LaFond and Brown (2003), “monitoring and evaluation can…

On Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning related to Capacity Building activities (II) – paradoxes and challenges

On 6 May, 2014 By Antonio Capillo With 2 Comments

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 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Capacity Building activities – methodologies

On 25 Apr, 2014 By Antonio Capillo With Comments Off

[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,…

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