Trainer: Emily Balls
Topics: donor reporting, MEL strategies, COVID-19 and remote data collection
Are you looking for recommendations about the digital MEL tools you should be using? Are you unsure about how to gather and analyse data for your biannual donor report? Are you looking to hear advice from fellow Scottish Government small grantees about how they are adapting their MEL for the context of the COVID-19 crisis?
This workshop was designed to help Scottish Government grantees get to grips with what monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) means for programming, why it is important and what it means practically for your project during the current COVID-19 outbreak.
What the training covered:
- Understanding the usefulness of different MEL tools for grant management
- Being aware of how to gather robust and inclusive monitoring data and analyse it for a donor report
- Analysing the wider considerations of conducting MEL during COVID-19
- Recognising good practice in international development MEL
- Identifying solutions to commonly encountered MEL problems