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Complex Problems Need Simple Solutions
This midterm evaluation for the PLE, a project that provides health, education, food security, and protection support to internally displaced persons inside Burma and displaced…
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More on Organizational Learning
This blog by Dave Algoso was first published on his website, algoso.org, on September 24, 2015.Several folks reached out in response to the last post, on learning and…
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Lunchtime Learning at USAID/Armenia
With the diversity of activities any one mission is involved in, it’s easy to lose track of what a colleague in the next room is working on. It’s equally as hard to be aware of the…
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Visualizing MERLTech 2015: What Do the Doodles Tell Us?
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hang out with a unique and brilliant group of people—a mix of M&E practitioners, tech lovers, ICT4D enthusiasts,…
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3 Steps to Be a Data Minimalist: Collecting Less While Learning More
By So Yoon Sim, a graduate student at John Hopkins SAIS.The “Data Minimalism – How to Collect Less and Learn More” session at the MERLtech conference in October taught us…
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Why M&E is LAME (Or Should Be...)
This piece, by Matt Haikin, originally appeared on ICTworks.org on October, 29, 2015.M&E is lame...as is MEL, MERL, MEAL, PME, and PM&E. Why do we do M&E? …
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Dashboards: A Force for Good, Great, or Greater Confusion?
In this era of big data and real-time data sharing, projects and organizations are increasingly trying to organize their analytics with dashboards that share key insights at a…
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Theories of Change
The Theory of Change approach, with its focus on continuous critical reflection, demands a radical shift towards more and better learning in development thinking and…
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Training Next-Gen Development Practitioners in Agile Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning
This piece was written by Komal Bazaz Smith and Courtney Roberts, of the American University Graduate School of International Service.The day we walked into American University (AU)…
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Partnering to Help Partnership Builders: A Peer Assist for Private Sector Engagement
The Global Partnerships team in the U.S. Global Development Lab has organized the Private Sector Engagement Forum (PSEF) every other year since 2009. Overall, it has been a highly…