Create
- Create a Theory of Change: Build a theory of change showing how your program activities lead to outcomes and impact, with assumptions and risks identified.
- Create a Logframe: Build a logical framework with goals, outcomes, outputs, activities, indicators, means of verification, and assumptions.
- Create a MEL Plan: Develop a monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan with indicators, data collection methods, timelines, and responsibilities.
- Create an Evaluation Matrix: Build an evaluation matrix linking evaluation questions to criteria, indicators, data sources, and methods.
- Create SMART Indicators: Generate specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound indicators from your program objectives.
- Create an Indicator Reference Sheet: Document how each indicator is defined, measured, disaggregated, and reported : with baselines and targets.
- Create a Learning Agenda: Develop learning questions, methods, and a plan for how your program will capture and use lessons.
- Create a Data Use Plan: Map out who needs what data, when, and how it will inform decisions at each level of your program.
- Create a Stakeholder Map: Identify and categorize stakeholders by their interest, influence, and role in your M&E system.
- Create an M&E Budget: Build a justified M&E budget with line items for data collection, staffing, analysis, and reporting.
- Create a Results Framework: Build a multi-level results chain showing how inputs lead to activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact.
- Create a Beneficiary Feedback System: Design channels for collecting, processing, and responding to feedback from the people your program serves.
Draft
- Draft a Progress Report: Write a structured progress report for your donor with activities, results, challenges, and next steps.
- Draft an Evaluation Report: Write up evaluation findings into a professional report with methodology, results, and recommendations.
- Draft an Executive Summary: Create a concise 1-2 page summary of a longer M&E document for busy decision-makers.
- Draft a Case Study: Write a structured case study documenting a program success, challenge, or lesson learned.
- Draft Evaluation Terms of Reference: Write terms of reference for commissioning an external evaluation, including scope, questions, and methodology.
- Draft Lessons Learned: Capture and organize lessons from program implementation into a structured document for future use.
- Draft an M&E Section for a Proposal: Write the monitoring and evaluation section of a funding proposal with approach, indicators, and budget.
- Draft a Communication Plan for Findings: Plan how to share M&E findings with different audiences : donors, staff, communities, and partners.
Review
- Review My Logframe: Get structured feedback on your logframe's logic, indicator quality, assumptions, and completeness.
- Review My MEL Plan: Get feedback on your MEL plan's completeness, feasibility, indicator quality, and alignment with program design.
- Review My Theory of Change: Get feedback on your ToC's causal logic, assumptions, evidence base, and completeness.
- Review My Indicators: Get each indicator assessed for SMART criteria, measurability, and alignment with your results framework.
- Review My Evaluation Design: Get feedback on your evaluation methodology, questions, sampling, and analysis plan before fieldwork.
- Review My Data Collection Tool: Get feedback on your survey, interview guide, or checklist for clarity, bias, skip logic, and completeness.
- Review My Proposal M&E Section: Get feedback on the M&E section of your proposal for technical quality, completeness, and donor alignment.
- Review My Report Draft: Get structured feedback on a report draft for clarity, evidence, logic, and actionable recommendations.
Analyze
- Analyze Survey Data: Get help calculating frequencies, means, cross-tabulations, and interpreting patterns in your survey results.
- Analyze Interview Transcripts: Get help identifying themes, extracting key quotes, and summarizing findings from interview or FGD transcripts.
- Code Qualitative Data: Create a codebook and systematically code interview or focus group data into themes and sub-themes.
- Summarize a Long Report: Get a structured summary of a lengthy M&E document : key findings, recommendations, and action items.
- Extract Key Findings from a Document: Pull out the main findings, data points, and recommendations from a report or evaluation.
- Compare Baseline vs Endline Results: Analyze changes between baseline and endline data, identify significant shifts, and interpret what they mean.
- Identify Patterns Across Datasets: Find trends, outliers, and patterns across multiple data sources or reporting periods.
- Conduct a Gender Analysis: Analyze your M&E data through a gender lens : disaggregation, differential impacts, and inclusion gaps.
Design
- Design a Household Survey: Create a structured survey questionnaire for household or beneficiary data collection.
- Design an Interview Guide: Create a semi-structured interview guide with opening, probing, and closing questions.
- Design a Focus Group Guide: Create a focus group discussion guide with icebreakers, key questions, probes, and facilitation notes.
- Design an Observation Checklist: Create a structured checklist for field observations with clear criteria and rating scales.
- Design a Sampling Strategy: Determine how to select your study sample : method, size, stratification, and practical considerations.
- Design a Baseline Study: Plan your program's baseline data collection : what to measure, how, and what tools you need.
- Design a Rapid Assessment: Plan a quick assessment to get actionable data within 1-2 weeks for urgent decisions.
- Design a Mid-Term Evaluation: Plan a mid-term evaluation to check program progress, relevance, and early outcomes.
Learn
- Explain an M&E Concept: Get a clear, jargon-free explanation of any M&E concept : from theory of change to contribution analysis.
- Compare Evaluation Approaches: Understand the differences between evaluation methodologies and when to use each one.
- Suggest the Right Methodology: Describe your program and constraints, and get recommendations for the best evaluation approach.
- Help Me Choose Indicators: Describe your program objectives and get suggestions for appropriate indicators to track progress.
- Walk Me Through Data Analysis: Get step-by-step guidance on how to analyze your specific type of M&E data.
- Help Me Understand Contribution Analysis: Walk through the six steps of contribution analysis to build a credible case for your program's contribution to observed changes, without needing a control group.
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