Honest, plain-English reviews of the tools monitoring and evaluation teams actually use, arranged by the work you do. No hype, no affiliate noise.
The de-facto standard for mobile data collection in humanitarian and development work, built by a non-profit and free for non-profits.
The open-source pioneer of mobile data collection, with a large ecosystem and the option to self-host everything.
A commercial form platform known for data quality features such as audio audits and review workflows.
A mobile platform for data collection and case management, popular for frontline service delivery programmes.
A data collection and visualisation platform used widely in public health and development.
A free statistical language and the workhorse of reproducible analysis in evaluation.
A commercial statistics package long favoured by economists and impact evaluators.
Microsoft's dashboarding tool, widely used for programme monitoring and donor reporting.
A friendly design tool for reports, briefs, slides and social posts, with plenty of templates and a strong free tier.
Each stage of the M&E cycle, explained step by step, with the tools that fit.
Framing the questions, the theory of change, the logframe, the indicators, and the proposal that wins the work…
Surveys, forms, mobile data collection and field logistics. AI helps you design and translate the tools; the c…
Cleaning, joining and analysing quantitative and qualitative data. AI accelerates the mechanical work and expl…
Turning findings into a report, a briefing, a slide deck, or a community-facing summary. This is where AI is f…
Making sense of what was learned, tracking recommendations, and feeding the next cycle. AI is useful for summa…
AI is genuinely useful in M&E, and genuinely dangerous in the same breath. The rule that keeps you safe has not changed all year: let the machine draft and organise, and let a person verify.
Finish every AI output with a short check: label each claim as evidence or inference, verify every number and citation, and ask what has been left out. Our free handbook shows you how.
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