Policy engagement online tool for IFAD country programme
The International Agricultural Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – an international financial institution – is increasingly attempting to...
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The International Agricultural Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – an international financial institution – is increasingly attempting to...
This toolkit provides a framework to think about communications monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and provides example questions, indicators and tools to do...
This series included 5 articles about the MEL of think tanks. The series began with a discussion by Dena Lomofsky of the challenges and possibilities of monitoring, evaluation and learning in...
Research and communication tend to receive more attention than governance and management when it comes to the study and support of think tanks. Yet, without sound governance and management,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The best think tanks around the world provide timely, independent research that informs policy decisions and improves lives. Yet many of these organizations struggle...
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...
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...
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...