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  • Developing a performance story report

    This guide outlines a step-by-step participatory process for developing a performance story report in the context of ‘performance story evaluation’ and natural resource management, but can be used for monitoring and in other contexts.
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  • Revolutionary Google-backed system unlocks power of big data to save forests

    This blog post from Rhett A Butler for Mongabay.com outlines the use of a new tool, Global Forest Watch, which uses big data to monitor global forests on a monthly basis.  Utilising Google’s computing cloud the tool is able to analyse
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  • Expectations about identifying and documenting “Lessons Learned”

    This guide by Rick Davies offers advice on identifying and appropriately writing effective Lessons Learnt paragraphs.
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  • What is a lesson learnt?

    A short one-page guide on identifying Lessons Learnt and best practices, which also offers tips on formulating Lessons Learnt paragraphs.
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  • UNICEF: Innovations, lessons learned and good practices

    This archived page on UNICEF's website brings together a range of lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that have emerged from UNICEF's programs and evaluations over the five years to 2013.
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  • Identifiying and documenting “Lessons Learned”: A list of references

    Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS, managed by Rick Davies, have compiled a provisional list of Lessons Learnt resources.
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  • The use of monitoring and evaluation in agriculture and rural development projects

    The document reviews monitoring and evaluation practises carried out in agricultural and rural development projects, financed by the World Bank.
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  • VUE

    The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application developed to support teaching, learning and research.
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  • Scapple

    Scapple is an easy-to-use tool for getting ideas down as quickly as possible and making connections between them.
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  • Lucidchart

    A cloud-based flow chart maker with a number of usual features, including integration with programs like Visio. Cost: Free, but account required From the website:
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  • TOCO

    Theory of change Online (TOCO) is web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design, edit and store your theory of change.
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  • Dylomo

    Dylomo is a free, web-based tool that can be used to create interactive, online logic models.
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  • Logframer

    Logframer is a free project design and management application based on the logical framework approach (LFA / Logframe).
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  • Better Monitoring: Help us address the neglected ‘M’ in M&E

    Effective monitoring is essential for managing performance, however, despite this, monitoring is often undervalued and understood quite narrowly.
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  • What do we need for better monitoring?

    This blog by Jo Hall and Patricia Rogers provides an update on the Global Partnership for Better Monitoring project.
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  • BetterMonitoring draft framework - September 2021

    BetterEvaluation is working with UNICEF to try and improve our collective understanding and practice of the monitoring function. The BetterMonitoring initiative focuses on trying to elevate the monitoring function to make it more visible and to provide…
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  • Seeking surprise: Rethinking monitoring for collective learning in rural resource management

    This PhD thesis from Irene Guijt draws on her extensive knowledge and experience in the field of rural resource management in Brazil.
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  • Monitoring the composition and evolution of the research networks of the CGIAR research program on roots, tubers and bananas (RTB)

    This Brief provides an example of how Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be used, in the context of agricultural research.
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  • Miradi

    Miradi is designed to provide project teams with the essential features that they need to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their conservation projects, in other words, to practice good adaptive management.
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  • Theory of change software

    There are a number of options when it comes to using software to help create a logic model.
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  • Ushahidi

    Ushahidi is an open-source mapping and crowdsourcing tool that can be used by organizations to collect, manage and analyse crowdsourced info.
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  • Theory maker

    This free and open-sourced web-based tool was made by Steve Powell as a quick and simple way of creating a theory of change. The information provided was supplied by Steve Powell.
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