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Resource: SDG Reporting
SoPact released this useful guide for using data to report on your progress towards SDGs. Some of you may know about a project that I led for a long time, collecting data from women’s rights organisations and mapping their achievements in movement building alongside the SDGs. I hope this guide is useful for you!
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Resource: Participatory Action Toolkit
This helpful guide breaks down the cycles of planning, action, and reflection that are necessary for a research activity to be truly participatory. The cycles follow different areas of inquiry, from collaborating with partners and looking at their roles, to examining ethics. Rachel Pain, Geof Whitman, and David Milledge wrote it, and it was published…
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Resource: Managing for Sustainable Development Impact
This book was written by Wageningen University & Research, and contains loads of nuggets on leading an organisation, strategic directions and advising nonprofits in challenging situations, and how leaders should navigate complexity. Special sections dedicated to applied PMEL tools provide spaces for reflection on how to best adapt to new situations for your organisation. For…
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Resource: Data Journalism Handbook
A slightly oldie – but still a goodie! Continuing from the previous post’s theme, here’s another great resource on data journalism. This is a 191-page handbook on what data journalism is, why it’s important, several examples of using data and journalism well together, including The Guardian’s Datablog – a personal favourite. With examples you can…
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Resource: Storytelling with Data
There’s so much to the method of storytelling, which is one of the things I love about it. I like to keep updated with what people from different industries are creating and adapting, especially with creative approaches to our work. I heard about Jonathan Corum’s speech and found his notes written up soon after. This…
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Resource: Measuring Market Systems Resilience
USAID recently published this useful guide to incorporate resilience into assessments of market systems and programmes. It contains an analysis of USAID’s framework for MSR and looks at how systems change programmes can assess the strengths of market systems.
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Resource: Evaluation Societies and Associations
A great list of M&E associations and networks, which is updated here. I highly recommend joining Better Evaluation and Peregrine as well, since both have active and engaged members from around the world. The list below has been copied from the Better Evaluation site, since I was having some issues accessing it earlier. Hope it’s…
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Resource: Designing Interventions for Data Demand and Use
MEASURE Evaluation recently published this useful decision tree. Use it to help you identify which tools can help you best design a data system and framework that meets a specific need.
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Managing your Data
One of the first tasks in building a strong PMEL system involves thoroughly reviewing the data you gather – and that includes how it’s collected, stored, and analysed. This can help you and your team work with your programme teams to find the best way to meet your PMEL needs and keep things light for…
