M&E Guides

Learn the method, make a choice, or find the right M&E resource for proposal work. Practical guidance without requiring AI.

Learn a Method

Step-by-step M&E practice, from evaluation design to data analysis.

Compare approaches, constraints, and trade-offs before choosing.

Method guides explain how to do the work. Decision guides help you choose an approach.

Choose an evaluation purpose, design type, methodology, and sampling approach. Includes a TOR checklist and downloadable templates.

Method guide · Evaluation

A step-by-step workflow from learning questions to a results framework, indicator plan, and data collection schedule.

Method guide · Planning

Choose between household surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. Includes instrument templates.

Method guide · Data

A data quality assurance guide covering the five quality dimensions, indicator quality, and a practical DQA process.

Method guide · Data Quality

Turn M&E data into program decisions: assess quality, clean the dataset, build a learning agenda, and run decision sprints.

Method guide · Analysis

Decision Guides cover the trade-offs M&E teams hit most often: logframe vs theory of change, output vs outcome vs impact, and dozens more.

For step-by-step AI workflows on the same topics, head to AI for M&E.