AI Prompts for M&E
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Design Contribution Analysis
Need to prove your program caused observed changes, not just correlation? Designs a Contribution Analysis plan with contribution questions, ToC assumptions, evidence types, and quality criteria.
Design Mixed Methods
Combining surveys with interviews to understand both 'what' and 'why'? Designs a mixed-methods evaluation with integrated quant/qual components, sampling, and triangulation strategy.
Design Outcome Harvesting
Working with an adaptive program where outcomes emerge unexpectedly? Designs an Outcome Harvesting process with strategic questions, outcome description templates, and substantiation criteria.
Design Rapid Assessment
Need actionable data within 7-14 days for urgent decisions? Designs a rapid assessment with focused evaluation questions, core indicators, sampling, and data quality trade-offs.
Design Theory of Change
Planning how to develop your program's Theory of Change from scratch? Designs the ToC development process including stakeholder workshops, causal pathway mapping, and assumption testing.
Review & Assess Data Collection Tool
Have a draft survey or interview guide ready for quality review? Evaluates question quality, response options, skip logic, ethical compliance, and provides a scored assessment.
Review & Assess Data Quality
Concerned about the reliability of your monitoring data? Assesses data quality across key dimensions and identifies specific gaps with improvement recommendations.
Review & Assess Evaluation Design
Want expert feedback on your evaluation methodology before fieldwork? Reviews design rigor, methodology appropriateness, sampling, and ethical considerations.
Review & Assess Horizontal Logic
Checking if your indicators, data sources, and targets are aligned? Evaluates horizontal logic row by row, identifying misalignments and suggesting corrections.
Review & Assess SMART Indicators
Need to verify your indicators are well-defined and measurable? Evaluates each indicator against SMART criteria with specific improvement suggestions and revised versions.
Review & Assess Learning & Adaptive Management
Assessing whether your program genuinely learns and adapts? Reviews learning systems, feedback loops, and adaptive management practices with actionable recommendations.
Review & Assess Proposal MEL Section
Finalizing the M&E section of a proposal? Reviews completeness, technical quality, and donor alignment with specific revision suggestions.
Review & Score Indicator Quality
Need a quantitative quality score for your indicators? Scores each indicator on a 0-20 SMART rubric with per-criterion ratings, red flags, and improvement steps.
Review & Assess Logic Model
Reviewing a logic model or results framework for logical consistency? Evaluates component quality, causal logic, and alignment with program objectives.
Review & Assess Theory of Change
Have a Theory of Change that needs expert critique? Evaluates causal logic, assumption validity, evidence base, and provides specific strengthening recommendations.
Review USAID MEL Documentation
Need to check if your MEL documentation meets USAID standards? Reviews pasted PMP, evaluation reports, or CLA plans against USAID MEL requirements with compliance ratings.
Review & Assess Vertical Logic
Checking if activities logically lead to outputs, outcomes, and impact? Evaluates vertical causal linkages with strength ratings and identifies broken logic chains.
Generate Evaluation Matrix
Starting an evaluation design and need the foundational framework? Generates a complete evaluation matrix with questions, criteria, indicators, data sources, and methods.
Generate Indicator Reference Sheet
Need detailed documentation for how each indicator is measured? Generates a Performance Indicator Reference Sheet with definitions, methods, targets, and quality standards.
Generate Logframe
Building a logical framework for a new program? Generates a complete logframe with goal, outcomes, outputs, activities, indicators, and means of verification.
Generate Logic Model
Need to visualize your program's input-to-impact logic? Generates a complete logic model showing the causal chain from resources through activities to outcomes.
Generate MEL Plan
Developing a comprehensive MEL plan from scratch? Generates a full plan with indicator tables, data collection schedule, quality assurance, reporting plan, and learning framework.
Generate Results Framework
Need a hierarchical results structure for your program? Generates a multi-level results framework with goals, objectives, intermediate results, and indicators at each level.
Generate Theory of Change
Ready to create your program's Theory of Change? Generates a complete ToC with problem analysis, causal pathways, assumptions, risks, and evidence rationale.
Review & Assess MEL Plan
Have a draft MEL plan that needs expert review? Assesses plan quality across key criteria with ratings, specific feedback, and prioritized improvement recommendations.
Review & Assess Bha Indicators
Validating indicators for a BHA-funded program? Assesses indicator quality against BHA-specific standards with sector-appropriate feedback.
Review BHA Indicator Compliance
Checking BHA indicator compliance before submission? Evaluates indicators against SMART criteria within BHA compliance frameworks.
Review BHA Indicator Validation
Need formal pass/fail validation for BHA indicators? Validates each indicator with evidence-based determinations and specific revision suggestions.
Review USAID MEL System Compliance
Running a full USAID MEL compliance audit? Comprehensive 8-criteria check against ADS 201, PMP, CLA, Evaluation Policy, DQA, and GESI standards.
Review USAID MEL Standards (Health)
Reviewing health-sector M&E content for USAID alignment? Evaluates health program MEL documentation against USAID standards with evidence-based findings.
Review & Assess Value for Money
Assessing whether a program delivers good value for money? Evaluates across Economy, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity dimensions with ratings and recommendations.
Review USAID PMP Compliance
Finalizing a PMP for USAID submission? Verifies Performance Monitoring Plan compliance with USAID requirements and identifies gaps to address.
Write an Evaluation Report
Writing up evaluation findings into a professional report? Generates a structured evaluation report with executive summary, findings, recommendations, and lessons learned.
Write a Donor Progress Report
Preparing a progress report for your donor? Generates a structured donor report with achievement narratives, variance explanations, and forward-looking plans.
Write an M&E Case Study
Documenting a program success story or lesson? Creates a structured case study with context, changes observed, evidence, and replication recommendations.
Document Lessons Learned
Capturing and organizing lessons from program implementation? Documents lessons by theme with evidence, analysis, and actionable recommendations for future programming.
Write an Executive Summary
Need a concise summary of a longer M&E document? Creates a focused 400-600 word executive summary highlighting key findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
Design a Household Survey
Designing a household or beneficiary survey? Creates a structured survey instrument with sections, question types, skip logic, and enumerator instructions.
Design a Key Informant Interview Guide
Preparing for key informant interviews? Designs a semi-structured interview guide with opening, probing, and closing questions tailored to your research objectives.
Design a Focus Group Discussion Guide
Planning focus group discussions? Designs a facilitation guide with discussion questions, participatory exercises, timing, and facilitator notes.
Design an Observation Checklist
Need a systematic tool for field observations? Creates a structured checklist with observation items, rating scales, and guidance notes.
Design a Sampling Strategy
Determining how to select your study sample? Designs a sampling strategy with frame definition, size calculation, methodology, and bias mitigation.
Conduct a Stakeholder Analysis
Mapping who matters for your M&E system? Conducts a stakeholder analysis with interest/influence mapping, engagement strategies, and communication priorities.
Design an M&E Communication Plan
Planning how to share M&E findings with different audiences? Designs a communication plan with audience profiles, key messages, channels, and feedback mechanisms.
Design a Data Use Plan
Ensuring your data actually informs decisions? Creates a data use plan linking data products to decision-makers, timelines, and feedback loops.
Analyze Qualitative Data
Have interview or FGD transcripts ready for analysis? Provides a thematic analysis framework with coding approach, theme identification, and interpretation guidance.
Analyze Quantitative Survey Data
Ready to analyze survey or monitoring data? Designs an analysis plan with variable selection, statistical methods, disaggregation, and visualization recommendations.
Design a Baseline Study
Planning your program's baseline data collection? Designs a baseline study with methodology, sampling, indicator specifications, and data quality protocols.
Design a Mid-Term Evaluation
Time for a mid-term check on program progress? Designs a mid-term evaluation with evaluation questions, mixed methods, sampling, and timeline.
Write Evaluation Terms of Reference
Commissioning an external evaluation? Generates Terms of Reference with scope, methodology, team requirements, timeline, and deliverables.
Justify an M&E Budget
Defending your M&E budget to management or donors? Builds a justified M&E budget with line items, industry benchmarks, and cost-efficiency narrative.
Conduct Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Comparing program costs against outcomes achieved? Conducts a cost-effectiveness analysis with cost inventory, ratios, sensitivity testing, and value recommendations.
Conduct an M&E Capacity Assessment
Evaluating your team's M&E skills and systems? Assesses capacity across key dimensions with gap analysis and a prioritized capacity building plan.
Design an M&E System
Building an M&E system from the ground up? Designs a complete system with data flow, collection tools, roles, technology, quality assurance, and reporting schedule.
Design an M&E Dashboard
Creating a performance monitoring dashboard? Specifies KPIs, visualization types, user views, data refresh frequency, and drill-down capabilities.
Design a Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism
Setting up a beneficiary feedback and complaints system? Designs feedback channels, referral protocols, data management, and community awareness plan.
Design a Learning Agenda
Want your program to systematically learn and adapt? Creates a learning agenda with learning questions, evidence activities, timelines, and dissemination plan.
Facilitate an After-Action Review
Running a structured reflection after a key program event? Designs an After-Action Review with guiding questions, facilitation notes, and action planning template.
Conduct a Gender Analysis for M&E
Ensuring your M&E system captures gender dynamics? Conducts a gender analysis covering dimensions, disaggregation, gender-sensitive indicators, and practical recommendations.
Ensure Disability Inclusion in M&E
Making your M&E accessible to persons with disabilities? Identifies inclusion barriers and provides accessibility adaptations, disaggregated indicators, and ethical guidance.
Conduct a Conflict Sensitivity Analysis
Operating in a fragile or conflict-affected context? Assesses conflict dynamics, do-no-harm risks, and designs conflict-sensitive data collection protocols.
Conduct an M&E Risk Assessment
Identifying what could go wrong with your M&E activities? Maps M&E risks across categories with likelihood/impact ratings, mitigation strategies, and monitoring plan.
Design Most Significant Change Process
Using stories to capture unexpected program outcomes? Designs an MSC process with domains of change, story collection protocol, selection panels, and analysis framework.
Design a Participatory Evaluation
Involving communities as partners in evaluation, not just subjects? Designs a participatory evaluation with co-developed questions, stakeholder roles, and validation processes.
Design a Real-Time Monitoring System
Need rapid feedback on program implementation? Designs a real-time monitoring system with indicators, alert thresholds, technology, and adaptive response protocols.
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