Monitoring and Evaluation Tools
RTI promotes useful monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools to support our international project activities across all programs sectors. Useful approaches to design, information management, and results reinforce effective interpretation, analysis, and feedback that enhance program performance.
Principles we use in building quality M&E systems include an explicit focus on
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Content that is timely and relevant
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Access that fosters local ownership and data quality
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Data use that grounds decisions in evidence and measured results
Using M&E tools that reinforce content, access, and data use principles during program design and implementation creates systems that help keep all stakeholders engaged in meaningful participation, which is crucial to local ownership and sustainability. Developing useful M&E systems requires expert precision and sometimes sophisticated techniques, but the system must make sense to project teams, implementing partners, local counterparts, and other stakeholders.
ICT and M&E Tools
RTI M&E benefits from a close relationship with information and communication technology (ICT) specialists, approaches, and tools. Our M&E tools flexibly build on technology appropriate to a variety of field settings, ranging from simple paper to multilevel training systems and databases to selective investment in Internet connectivity and/or integration with the use of personal digital assistants, cell phones, and geographic information systems.
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EMMETM
EMMETM is one Web-based tool that has been developed at RTI to support improved M&E practices in RTI-led projects around the world. EMME offers project team members, partners, clients, and authorized counterparts secure yet convenient access to meaningful, current project information (results, background, and supporting documents) through the Web.
Using EMME during a project's life cycle helps team members, managers, and other designated stakeholders design sound M&E frameworks and appropriate indicators, plan and document targets and achievements, and monitor indicator values over time for better analysis and assessment of results. Currently, EMME produces standard reports that can be incorporated directly into proposals, periodic reports, or exported for other uses.
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