For those who came in late, MER stands for Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting. Many of you who receive this newsletter have worked with us in some way in the MER process – and hopefully found some tools and information through the newsletter and website to further develop your own MER capacity. We thought we would
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Posts Tagged KRAs
5 golden MER rules for 2012
The context can make or break your KRAs
We spend a lot of time determining our KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and KRAs (Key Result Areas) as it’s critical to be clear about what we are trying to achieve in a project or program. They are also central to guiding the logic of planned activities and the logic of monitoring and evaluation. However, sometimes
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KPIs and KRAs – Top of the QualDATA pops
I’ve just gone into Google analytics to have a look at the most popular articles on the QualDATA site since we sent out our first newsletter three years ago in October 2008. At the top of the list is the article about measuring your achievements with key performance indicators (KPIs) with the next most read
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Recapping 2008
Over recent months in our newsletter we have focused on the importance of being proactive and structured with monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER). Importantly, we introduced the QualDATA log frame (developed through a number of years of working with project and program evaluations) and have gone through its different levels to help you use such
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Challenges of monitoring on-going agency programs
We recently had the opportunity to work with a group of senior managers in a state government agency who wanted to better evaluate and report on their major projects and on-going programs. While taking them through the logframe, we found that it was most helpful focusing on – what we are calling – the “E”
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Choosing the right data collection method
One of the big issues in evaluation is choosing the right method to collect the data that you have identified is needed. Too often, someone will say…’we want to do an evaluation – we will do a survey’. This is a case of being method focused rather than focusing on the information need itself. The
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Focus your evaluation with Key Result Areas (KRAs)
In the last newsletter, we introduced the QualDATA Log Frame. We noted that the log frame pivots around the Key Result Areas or KRAs and suggested that you can create these by answering the question: “What can we actually achieve in the life of the program, project or organisation which provides the basis for the
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