1. Monitoring and Evaluation in a Nutshell
As part of the process to systematize and enhance the quality of monitoring and evaluation processes and deliverables, this simple monitoring and evaluation guide has been developed.This guide includes practical guidance on how to do monitoring and evaluation: including developing simple monitoring and evaluation tools giving practical examples, a set of formats to facilitate the evaluation process and basic monitoring and evaluation terminology to ensure coherence and consistency.
2. Participatory video for Monitoring and Evaluation
Participatory Video makes Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) engaging, compelling and fun. It is perfect for community groups, NGOs and other bodies seeking an authentic and participatory means of learning from their projects in interventions.
3. Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in complex social situations
This is a guide in reaction to the ever increasing need on concrete results of funds from donor agencies and policymakers.
Mobile for Development Initiative (M4D)
Mobile for Development (M4D) is a not-for-profit technology initiative designed to help development organizations leverage the ubiquity of mobile phones to increase the effectiveness of their social change work.
Healthcare
mHealth for Development: The opportunity of mobile technology for health care in the developing world
This report introduces the provision of health-related services via mobile communications that demonstrates the potential of mobile communications to radically improve healthcare services.
Millennium Villages Project: The impact of mobile connectivity on the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
This report introduces the project done in Sub-Saharan Africa on mobile connectivity and the use of ICT in the Millennium Villages Project that have become key components towards achieving Millennium Development Goals.
Healthcare Strengthening: Implications for health systems strengthening
This is an overview report on mobile monitoring and evaluation of the healthcare industry with examples focusing on the HIV prevention.
Education
M 4 Girls: Empowering Female Students
Full report here.
Brief Overview: The M4girls project is a partnership between Nokia, Mindset Network, and the Department of Education (North West Province/South Africa) to test the provision of educational content on a mobile phone platform to girl learners. The project targeted the development of Mathematics competencies in Grade Ten girl learners from underserved communities, and aimed to empower girl learners.
Economic Development
Drop by Drop Gets the Pump: Kickstarts Mobile Layaway Service for Small-Scale Farmers
Full report here.
Brief Overview: KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies to help local entrepreneurs establish new small businesses.The mobile layaway service allows farmers to make incremental payments over a mobile phone by leveraging a mobile banking platform hat is popular in Kenya and elsewhere.
Environment
Mobile Technology as an Enabler of Environmental Action in the Philippines
Full report here.
Brief Overview: his repport summaries the overview that information and communications technologies (ICTs) exists against a backdrop of a country with almost a third of its 83 million people living in extreme poverty and deprivation. These realities, in most respects, support the urgency to align sustainable development policies with the e-strategies of the country, especially as it endeavors to nurture a development-oriented, people-centred information society.
Democratic Participation
Voices of Youth
Full report here.
Brief overview: UNICEF in Nepal has teamed up with the popular Nepali radio program Saathi Sanga Man Ka Kura, which means "chatting with my best friend." The program, also called SSMK, is run by the non-governmental organization Equal Access Nepal. SSMK has been on the air for 10 years and reaches millions of youth listeners (primarily ages 13 to 26) throughout Nepal. In April, UNICEF and SSMK launched a campaign that allows young listeners to take an active role in a conversation, all via SMS.