Perspectives, research summaries, tools and practical guides from DAREL Consulting's practitioners — to help you do the work better.
Most NGO M&E teams still run their programmes on Excel. While it works, it creates bottlenecks, version control nightmares and dashboards that no one actually uses. Here's a practical roadmap for the transition.
Read Article →The most common reason M&E systems fail is poorly designed indicators. Here are the SMART+IE criteria we use with every client.
Read more →What we learned about data quality, sampling and mobile data collection from a large-scale agricultural livelihoods study across Kenya and Tanzania.
Read more →Disaggregating by sex is necessary but not sufficient. This piece explores intersectionality, power analysis and GESI-sensitive indicators.
Read more →A step-by-step technical guide to connecting DHIS2 APIs to Power BI for county health programme monitoring in Kenya.
Read more →How development practitioners can use free GIS tools to map vulnerability, plan coverage and present geographic evidence to donors.
Read more →Utilisation-focused evaluation isn't just a methodology — it's a mindset. Most evaluations fail at the utilisation stage.
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