Telling your story of policy influence
When it comes to telling the story of what your organisation does, its achievements and failures, it is critical that you have all the available evidence that supports your statements. You...
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Communications, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
The Communications, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (CMEL) Officer will play a leading role in a fully funded, multimillion-dollar project to rapidly accelerate the global creation,...
Monitoring your communications: try this
Monitoring and evaluation – M&E, or MEL as it has come to be known, the ‘L’ standing for learning – has a bad reputation. It’s difficult. It’s boring. Pulling all the...
Reflections on monitoring, evaluation and learning
After taking a course on MEL, I was invited to share some of my reflections: There is no doubt that M&E is important and beneficial to organizations and their...
Six ways think tanks can overcome angst about impact
The best think tanks around the world provide timely, independent research that informs policy decisions and improves lives. Yet many of these organizations struggle...
MEL for a think tank: test drive or driving test?
This year our center, Society and Environment, introduced MEL into one of its projects related to green growth indicators and monitoring. To be an environmental think-tank in Ukraine you...
Four questions to assess your research communications impact
Research can have an impact. But only if we get our research to the right people, at the right time, and in a way they can relate to. Considering how vital...
Monitoring, evaluation and learning in a South African think tank
I recently had the opportunity to work on a project that involved the development of a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system for a project called Global...
The Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Framework
The Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Framework is a recent contribution to the quest for improvements in the assessment of research quality. We designed the...
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for think tanks
Challenges and possibilities of monitoring, evaluation and learning in think tanks Measuring the results of the work of think tanks poses many challenges; the results are...
Webinar: Can policy research and its impact be evaluated and how? The case of American foundations and think tanks
Presentation In spite of the fact that many of the most prominent think tanks in the US, starting with the Brookings Institution, the New America Foundation, or the Bipartisan Policy Center,...
Few more days to register to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Course
The On Think Tanks School is organising its first Short Course starting on the 5th April. You still have a few more days to sign-up! Register to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning...