We are truly happy to have received so much feedback from our WebMo users. WebMo, the software for Monitoring and Collaboration is definitely a better tool thanks to you, as we endlessly try to incorporate all what is important to you in the tool. By now, over 60 projects and organisations are using WebMo, so it wasn't easy to incorporate all the feedback received, but as always, we are happy to keep hearing further comments on how to continue improving WebMo, in order to deliver you with the best tool. Thanks to the latest feedback we have compiled, we have a couple new features that we...
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How to assess the progress of your project?
Robert Heine - 2.3.2022
Is your project successful when all activities are implemented and all outputs are achieved? How do you measure the achievements of your outcomes? Are the indicators showing you the progress, or are they achieved when, again, all activities are implemented?
So, it basically comes down to the question “how to measure the progress correctly”.
In other words: do we follow a “results” or an “implementation logic”?
From a monitoring perspective, the progress is of course measured with indicators. This is why we have them. In a good monitoring system, you should have...
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M&E webmo The Logic of WebMo
Robert Heine - 9.12.2021
WebMo has a basic logframe with an objective level, outcomes, outputs and activities. On objective, outcome and output level, you can (and should) of course add indicators. WebMo offers 3 different indicator types. On output level, you can add so-called activity indicators, which measure the achievements of attached activities. Another option is to add milestone indicators. We called them milestone indicators as they allow you to enter milestones from a baseline scenario to the target scenario. Or you can add a quantitative indicator, which is based on numbers for baseline, target and...
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M&E webmo New WebMoFeatures
Robert Heine - 14.10.2021
To keep our WebMo software user-friendly and up-to-date to meet our customer's monitoring needs, one of our ongoing tasks is to regularly add new features. Two of the latest additions are the “Media Tab” and “Activity Sheets”.
Media Tab:
For doing your progress reporting and also to manage your public relations, including your project’s monitoring data is an important and in most cases even indispensable ingredient. Oftentimes though, what is missing are some nice pictures or videos to present your success stories and add some “icing to the cake”.
The new Media Tab...
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One WebMo customer equals one tree per month
Diane Roeschen - 23.8.2021
Trees provide biodiversity, shade, water and livelihoods for people and animals. They are one of the most powerful tools to buy us time in the fight against the climate crisis. From January until July 2021, we were again able to fund one tree per month for every WebMo customer. This way, 300 trees could be planted on the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico, by our partner organisation Plant-for-the-Planet. The local forest restoration team works especially intense during the rainy season each year from July to December.
We hope that "our" little plants will one day grow into mighty trees...
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Wikipedia or how it all started
Lisa Feldmann - 21.6.2021
On 15 January 2021, Wikipedia turned 20 years old. But what does that have to do with us, the energypedia consult and nonprofit teams?
Actually, quite a lot! For our nonprofit energypedia, a platform for energy access, renewable energies and energy efficiency, this might be obvious. The idea and software are the same: people from all over the world have free access to knowledge and can share their experience with other energy experts to make universal access to sustainable energy a reality.
But for energypedia consult the link may not be that obvious. Still, without...
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Company news Welcome to Our New Customers
Lisa Feldmann - 14.6.2021
We are happy to have recently been contracted by the following organizations and programs and look forward to a fruitful cooperation:
In the area of IT and M&E services:
We upgraded the WebMo for Amica e.V. with the so called “results staircase”. The “results staircase” is a logical approach of the non-profit organization Phineo, which is quite popular in the German non-profit sector. We will set up a WebMo for the International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3), an international center promoting and developing sustainable chemistry solutions...Tags:
Company news So What's Wrong with Excel?
Robert Heine - 3.6.2021
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...
How to download your report
Hector Alfaro - 22.3.2021
In the past couple months, we have made a huge improvement to our reporting section. Namely, we have made it possible to download your logframe into MS Word by date, including a factsheet of your project!
Previously, downloading your logframe was only possible showing the current progress of indicators and activities, and only that, just the logframe (no factsheet of your project). We quickly realized that sometimes it was necessary to have a historic overview of the progress in past dates, as well as further information about your project (factsheet). For this reason, we...
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Remote working and the longing for personal contacts in times of Covid19
Lisa Feldmann - 15.3.2021
It’s been now for one year already that the corona virus is forcing us to minimize personal contacts. Social distancing, remote working, online video conferences are our new normal in our day-to-day business.
However, as we said good-bye to our colleague Johanna some weeks ago, we just had the chance to search for old photos. Do you know this nostalgia when looking at pictures from team hikes, crowded barbecues, business trips and inspiring in-person workshops? Actually, most of us have seen each other at the Christmas party in 2019! Since we were used to work remotely with a...
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