Monitoring and Evaluation
Organizations can end up spending days caught in a task-trap, accomplishing for the sake of accomplishing, without any direction. It’s easy to see why--there’s a lot to do. But whether you’re starting out or already on your journey, it’s important to keep focused on your goals through monitoring and evaluating what you do, ensuring that it furthers your mission.
We can help, and our M&E services can help you chart a path through each day, making the most of what you do. We evaluate what organizations are currently doing, identify opportunities, and design solutions to help them arrive at the goal of empowering data--the numbers and the stories that help them make day-to-day management decisions, engage in long-term planning, communicate with stakeholders, and advertise in strategic and effective ways. In short, all they need to be successful:
Needs assessments—We help organizations find gaps your current practice and opportunities for growth through primary and secondary research. We contextualize these needs through landscape scans, framing local concerns in terms of broader need and finding solutions.
Ongoing monitoring—Small corrections to stay on course work better than large ones to find it again. We design sustainable solutions to help you generate and use the right data to make those small adjustments, meet objectives, and achieve organizational outcomes.
Navigational charts—We design systems that allow you to take control of your data, organizing collection and routinizing decision-making as you navigate your organization’s future. We’ll still be around to help with questions, analysis, reporting, and even course corrections as you go.
We reduce both tedium and uncertainty, clarifying the path ahead to your next milestone and to your overall goals:
For private companies, it means tracking the performance of your core business products and services (for instance), and it means evaluating internal processes and illuminating your market.
For non-profits, we can design a centralized means of tracking the work of volunteers, with the data streaming into a single place, analyze investment by “unit” of good--per time spent or per action taken, and ensure effective, measurable stewardship of all your funding.
Schools and researchers can track educational and other outcomes, assess current practices, and determine unmet need.
