South Africa has had a policy unit in the Presidency for some time, which since the mid-2000s also focused on M&E. This was reinforced in...

What factors hinder the evaluation process, from the generation of information to its effective use in the public policy process? The...

What is the role that evidence generated by research may have on the policy process based on your experience? In Uruguay the reality is...

I work for a small private non for profit health research center dedicated to Health Policy and Systems Research-HPSR-, a specific field...

In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...

For some time, the Latin American Center for Rural Development (Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, RIMISP) has been...

One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...

[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

The challenges of integrating a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system into policy research organizations are often greater...

Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...

Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches ‘Seriously?! As if we don’t have enough work already! Besides, we’re...

[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at On Think Tanks. It is part of a series of posts reflecting on a long term mentoring...

In the Palais des Nations, the United Nations office in Geneva, there is room for UNRISD, a research institute focused on social...

[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...

[Editor’s note: This post is the first of a series of posts focused on the nitty-gritty of designing and implementing M&E systems by...

By kat m research at flickr.com under CC license Catherine Fisher´s post on our Lessons learned paper as well as Antonio Capillo´s points...

This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and...

Increasing the variety of perspectives has proven to deliver more sound knowledge. Knowledge Integration (KI) is the process of creating...

I have written here on what are the elements of an effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system for capacity building (CB)...

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Antonio Capillo, M&E Officer at INASP]. I have already written on this post on Lessons learned...