Monitoring & Evaluation officers naturally deal with a lot of data. It is part of their job to collect and process them, and to prepare them for reporting. Especially when confronted with numbers, most people’s first intuition is to open an Excel file and start a table. This is a smart choice considering that
most people have Excel installed on their computer, it's free (after you have purchased the Microsoft office package – which most organizations have), it's relatively easy to use after some practice, there are a lot of online help pages, manuals and video…Blog
WebMo Updates
Robert Heine - 23.2.2021
In our quest to constantly improve WebMo, we recently updated our standard WebMo features:
Monitoring data and information from your project can now be downloaded into improved Word templates and then further edited for your progress or donor reporting; You can now add locations to outputs and activities; Following feedback from our clients, there is now more information from the Logframe tab also available on outcome and output sheets. So, on outcome sheets you will find information about related indicators and outputs; and on output sheets you will get also information…Tags:
webmo Eight Criteria for Selecting Monitoring Software
Robert Heine - 10.12.2020
This checklist will help you to find the monitoring software that caters best to your program needs and requirements. It is based on our experience in advising development programs on monitoring and evaluation processes and systems.
1 Features
For which step in the monitoring process do you need the software? Reflect on your feature requirements for data collection, data processing or management, the level of aggregation and on features for data output to support reporting and learning. Check what kind of data, quantitative or qualitative, can be handled…
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M&E Data Privacy Matters - Remote Working with Open-source Tools
Robert Heine - 18.5.2020
With the current global situation, home office has become the new normal for the time being, making online collaboration and communication tools more important than ever. Many teams have had to quickly adopt software and applications without much time to consider things such as data security and data privacy.
When choosing a tool, ease of use, features and integrations will naturally be top criteria. At the same time, we believe that it’s important not to throw data security or privacy over board, and to make sure to choose tools that are in line with your organization’s data…
Breaking Down the Barriers - For More Accessible Monitoring Software
Robert Heine - 8.4.2019
When we first created our M&E and collaboration software WebMo, we came from a place of genuinely wanting to make international development programs more transparent and efficient. After all, many of our team members, including myself, used to work in the field themselves. There is so much to be gained from a software that improves collaboration in the monitoring process, and this is true for projects of all shapes and sizes. WebMo was never meant to be a software exclusively reserved for highly funded projects. There are so many small NGOs doing great work.
That being said…
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webmo My Insights from MERL Tech in London
Robert Heine - 25.4.2018
I just got back from the MERL Tech conference, where those interested in the intersection between monitoring and evaluation, research, learning (MERL) and technology gathered in London. Apart from sharing all about WebMo in a live demo, I got to meet peers and discuss new methods, tools and approaches in the MERL-Tech landscape.
First things first – my overall take-away from the conference as a software provider is quite encouraging: monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Software is no longer a niche. The market has matured. More and more organizations are incorporating M&E…
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Company newswebmo So Far, So Fair
Robert Heine - 6.9.2017
For the running year, we have compensated the greenhouse gases of all our flights! As you might have heard, we here at energypedia consult try to minimize consumption of resources as far as possible. Within Germany we travel by train only, and for international flights we compensate our CO2 footprint.
Three times this year, we participated in international conferences, where we presented our M&E software WebMo. Melanie participated in the 8th AfrEA International Conference, hosted by the African Evaluation Association, in Kampala, Uganda. Robert flew to the MERL Tech…
What is Sustainable Software?
Robert Heine - 25.7.2017
A few months ago we shared some of our thoughts on sustainability with you and promised to follow up with some more answers to the question: Can software be sustainable?
The concept of sustainability is based on three pillars: the ecological, the economical and the social. This means that for a software to be sustainable, we must take all of its effects – direct and indirect – on the environment, the economy and the society into account. In addition, the entire life cycle of a software has to be considered: from planning and conception to programming, distribution, installation…
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Company news Can Software be Sustainable?
Robert Heine - 26.4.2017
We at energypedia consult consider ourselves a responsible company, treating clients, partners and team members with respect, honesty and fairness. Being a subsidiary of energypedia non-profit we also are conscious of our corporate responsibility. Thus, we try to minimize our consumption of resources as far as possible. This means running our wikis on CO2 neutral servers as well as buying only eco-friendly or second hand office materials. Also with regard to our suppliers sustainability is of importance. Within Germany we travel by train only and for international flights we compensate…
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Excel In-House Training
Robert Heine - 25.4.2017
Energypedia consult has been assigned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva to conduct a one-day Excel training for monitoring in May.
Excel is a widely accessible software program offering much potential for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data management and reporting needs. However, its potential is often underutilized. This workshop will help participants understand and better utilize the potential of Excel for M&E needs at the project, program and organizational levels. Only basic knowledge of Excel (see checklist)…
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