Emerging Opportunities: Monitoring and Evaluation in a Tech-Enabled World, a discussion paper written by Linda Raftree and Michael Bamberger under a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to Itad, provides an overview of how the practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E)—including that of the Foundation’s M&E practice—is learning how to better use information and communication technologies (ICTs) for more timely data, and more inclusive voice and feedback from beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
Contents
- Introduction
- Real-world changes
- Methodological challenges
- Current trends and tools in ICT-enabled M&E
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Implementation and monitoring
- Evaluation
- Reporting, sharing, and learning
- Areas to explore
- Random routes
- Reconstructing baseline data
- Improving sample design
- Enhancing rating scales
- Concept mapping
- Evaluating complex development programs
- Quantitative case study methods
- New challenges and risks when integrating ICTs in M&E
- Selectivity bias
- Technology- and tool-driven M&E prcoesses
- Over reliance on digital data
- Low institutional capacity and resistance to change
- Privacy and protection
- A checklist for thinking through ICTs in M&E
- References
Sources
Raftree, L. and Bamberger, M. (2014). Emerging opportunities: Monitoring and evaluation in a tech-enabled world. The Rockefeller Foundation Evaluation Office. Retrieved from: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/emerging-opportunities-monitoring/