This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. Probably as an inevitable result of the buzz in the past few years, many Theories of Change are often useless. One reason for that is – is my feeling – that they are typically not developed in a logical sequence: without a thorough […]
Stop overthinking: Minimum Viable Product
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. MINIMUM WHAT?!? Ok. What are we talking about? A minimum viable product – MVP in short – is a product with just enough features to gather validated learning about a possible intervention or product. It is deliberately imperfect; any additional work on it beyond what was required […]
Innovative programme design
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. It has always been clear to me: Monitoring and Evaluation depends to a large extent on how development or government programmes are planned and designed. That is why good M&E is strongly linked with good planning and design. In a way, programme design is a natural […]
The Age of Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. Data, information and knowledge Professional Monitoring and Evaluation is based on hard facts: data, information, knowledge and understanding. Let us take a closer look at these concepts: WHAT IS DATA? As you will know, data is a collection of objective facts, such as numbers, words, […]
Our toolbox for primary data collection
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. To collect primary data (data that we need to collect first ourselves), we can rely on a rather sophisticated tool box– largely from social sciences – that has been developed over decades. There are tools for quantitative and qualitative data collection. Here is a list of some of the […]