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 Reporting requirements
5 golden MER rules for 2012
Six steps to dismissing the myth that reporting on activities is too hard
The importance of being able to demonstrate the value of your work to a range of stakeholders (as a program leader / team member / project leader) is well established. Many people do this successfully from the planning to the reporting stage and to a very high standard (there are log frames all over the
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It’s not over til the paperwork is done
And this is certainly true with evaluation! Have a look at this flow diagram of the steps involved in developing and undertaking Monitoring and Evaluation for a project or program. Each of these steps are critical to fulfilling your MER needs.
Getting the numbers right
When are numbers not numbers? Over the last month I have participated in several sessions where QualDATA has worked with groups to review their monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes and systems. Inevitably the group turns its attention to the impact of their work at the wider program and individual project level. The issue of ‘the
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Where does professional development fit with Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting?
The mantra of ‘doing more with less’ is becoming increasingly familiar in every part of today’s environment – from the household budget upwards. The Queensland Government for example has just halved its consulting budget to $50million for the next financial year and we are all aware of the closure of LWA on June 30. This
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Reporting to be more rigorous in 2009
Both Benefit Cost Analaysis (BCA) and the Triple Botton Line (TBL) are emerging as important considerations when thinking about your level of accountability or when rigorously reporting your ‘return on investment’ or ROI.
Evaluation trends into 2009
As we come to the end of 2008, we are finding the discipline of Evaluation is becoming even more relevant to everyday work. Government departments and publicly funded organisations (e.g.NRM bodies and Research and Development organisations) are under increased scrutiny, which means that they are seeing an increased need to be to able monitor their
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