USAID Agency Learning and Evidence Month: Localization and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Webinar by Producer https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as Hosted by the USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning and the EnCompass Learning Center (https://encompassworld.com/elc/) en-us 2023-03-22 21:08:30 UTC 2023-05-16 20:28:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1576988326/cb4e555eb037e7743cb4258cd50648ee/ENC_logo.jfif https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2533642937 How can the government's MEL system be strengthened through the USAID-funded project's MEL system?
What are effective models for data feedback or restitution to beneficiaries?]]> 2023-03-27 19:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2533642937 Governments have their own, If that exist at all, disconnected MEL systems at different levels; So do multilateral and bilateral donor agencies and implementing partners. What enabling roles would the country wide alignment of MEL systems could play in localization and MEL? https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2545953587 2023-04-06 06:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2545953587 International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) lldstaff https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548881866 www.ioce.net

You can find an interactive map of Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) that are members of the IOCE here: https://ioce.net/vopes/vope-map/


]]> 2023-04-10 14:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548881866 Toolkit for VOPEs lldstaff https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548884867 https://vopetoolkit.ioce.net/en/page/about

This toolkit was co-created by VOPEs around the world, and it is available in English, French and Spanish in this link.]]> 2023-04-10 14:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548884867 https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548899805 2023-04-10 14:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548899805 https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548900371 2023-04-10 14:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548900371 EnCompass' Senegal Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Activity in Senegal (USAID/Senegal) is doing exciting research about localization! https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548938560 1. The Senegal MEL Platform conducted a Localization Landscape Analysis for USAID/Senegal in the first 6 months of activity implementation, which will be available via the DEC upon USAID approval.
2. Within Year 1, the Senegal MEL Platform conducted a Landscape Analysis focused on MEL service providers. The study is part of a larger initiative that will include capacity strengthening activities and opportunities for collaboration. This will be available via the DEC upon USAID approval.
Contact astek@encompassworld.com for more information.]]> 2023-04-10 15:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2548938560 Diaspora and MEL in the Middle East https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2550019658 Diaspora’s role is critical in boosting localization and creating a culture of evidence in the Middle East. Local leaders listen and learn faster from their fellow MEL experts in the US. How could a small business such as our Jabi Consulting LLC (www.jabiconsulting.com) that aims to mobilize diaspora in the US to help transfer knowledge and best practice in the field of MEL to local communities in MENA region support USAID's vision in making localization in MENA works? 
What resources we could tap into to achieve this goal? Hisham Jabi at Jabi Consulting 
]]> 2023-04-11 11:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2550019658 Visit ReLAC site to know what we are doing, and get involved with Latin America and the Caribbean evaluation community. https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556887199 2023-04-17 12:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556887199 Do you already know the Latin America and the Caribbean Evaluation Standards? This is our regional guide to do evaluations with high quality and context adapted. If you have any question, you can contact us in: coordinacion.general@relac.net https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556897869 2023-04-17 12:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556897869 EnCompass' USAID/Ukraine Monitoring and Learning Support Contract (UMLS) partners with a small Ukrainian videography firm for global outreach. https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556952352 Take a look at a video recently tweeted by Adm. Samantha Power (https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1638182188771573760). Contact us if you want to learn more about integrating locally led communications and media into your MEL work. Astek@encompassworld.com]]> 2023-04-17 13:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556952352 EnCompass' USAID/Lebanon MEL Contract (MEPL) partners with the Lebanese Evaluation Association (LebEval) to advance localization of MEL. lldstaff https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556991355 Through this collaboration, MEPL and LebEval are contributing to enhancement of Lebanon’s MEL capacities by co-planning and delivering customized capacity strengthening interventions. Reach out to us to hear more about partnering with local evaluation associations to advance localization in MEL! Contact astek@encompassworld.com]]> 2023-04-17 13:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2556991355 EnCompass' USAID/Peru Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Sustainability (MELS) is committed to 100% local subcontracting during implementation. https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2558990087 1) We are leading evaluations and other studies with Peruvian firms and regional consultants, moving beyond the tired models of expat-led evaluations and only contracting local firms for the data collection component. 
2) MELS' LINK mechanism established a pool of 5 qualified Peruvian firms in 2021, speeding the process of contracting with local entities without sacrificing compliance to USAID procurement rules. 
Contact zstout@encompassworld.com ]]> 2023-04-18 17:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2558990087 Publishing lldstaff https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2559076560 To what extend do MEL Platform staff and partners publish their work? Where do they publish?]]> 2023-04-18 18:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2559076560 Equity, opportunities and capacity building for Independent International Consultants from the Global South https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2560421625 International Development and Humanitarian Agencies from the 'global north' frequently trust and hire consultancy companies or individual international consultants from countries in the global north for programmes and policies developed and implemented in the 'global south.' Once contracted, the consultants from the global north sub-contract or employ 'international evaluation experts' from the global south to do the work and only pay the 'experts' negligible fees. What measures can USAID and other agencies headquartered in the global north put in place to ensure preferential treatment for qualified, reputable international consultants based in the global South when they submit competitive bids for evaluation of programmes in the global south. How can a transition from 'a culture of preference to hire consultants' from the global north to evaluate policies/ programmes in the global south even where equally competitive bids (or even more competitive bids) will have been submitted by evaluators based in the global south be orchestrated?]]> 2023-04-19 16:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2560421625 What is localization in MEAL means specially where the international office MEAL leads give direction, develop formats e.t.c? since all the guidance's comes from the donor country office's? https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565575125 2023-04-24 11:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565575125 https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565625200 Is USAID mainly focusing on who undertakes evaluations when talking about localisation, or are you also looking at localising and decolonising methodologies, to bring out the local or community voice in a stronger way in our MEL work?]]> 2023-04-24 12:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565625200 The proven Community-Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and CoLMEAL Approach and methodology provides tools, guidance and capacity building for wide-range of actors from donors, project design teams, project implementation teams to in-community facilitators and community members to enable and stimulate community-led MEAL processes guiding communities towards their vision. Learn more and access resources on: https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565628826 2023-04-24 12:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565628826 https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565641315 How does USAID view efforts to decolonise our methodologies on MEL, to value more indigenous ways of knowing, non-written and non-counted ways of measuring change, and   listening to what communities we work with think is important to measure?]]> 2023-04-24 12:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565641315 Evolution of USAID MEL philosophy and approaches https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565651939 Having been part of an MEL team nearly three decades ago and currently in higher education, I am wondering how the USAID MEL philosophy and approaches evolved over the decades and in which direction are they are headed? ]]> 2023-04-24 12:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565651939 Localization https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565652655 What Mission-level efforts will be in place to help local partners to navigate how to work with USAID? Many times, local partners don’t use those online platforms where USAID/W provides majority of its resources and guidance (such as WorkingWithUSAID) and they don’t know how to get in-country coaching and support to navigate and learn about USAID business forecast, bid system and process. Would events/business development training be organized in-country and in-person/hybrid for local partners via MEL or Localization mechanisms?]]> 2023-04-24 12:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565652655 Empowerment evaluation (helping community members conduct evaluations of their own programs with the assistance of local evaluators). Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice (Fetterman) is the most recent empowerment evaluation book with direct relevance to localization and monitoring. https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565654215 In addition, we have free readings of passages on YouTube:  The first reading is at:  https://youtu.be/9OHqTNdx4dk
This is the first reading of a series of 6 from my new book Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice (Guilford Press) by Dr. David Fetterman. This reading is a passage from the Preface. It highlights why this book is needed. It begins: "We face a worldwide crisis at this time in history. COVID, economic instability, global warming, political polarization, gender inequality, racial inequality, LGBTQ+. discrimination, anti-Asian and antisemitic attacks, and an ever-expanding list of critical concerns require our immediate attention. We can't wait for the government or industry to save us. We must learn to help ourselves and help others help themselves."
The book is available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Empowerment.../dp/1462551955

]]> 2023-04-24 12:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565654215 https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565689312 This is a blog we recently wrote about decolonising evaluations:
Decolonising evaluation: whose value counts? - Christian Aid]]> 2023-04-24 13:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565689312 How can youth be involved in the Monitoring and Evaluation lacalisation program in developing countries? https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565708232 2023-04-24 13:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lldstaff/ipu7zgjnh7i5g3as/wish/2565708232