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Indicator development can be quite a challenge and far too often, no M&E expert is involved in this process. Consequently, M&E staff often has to work with difficult indicators. Based on my experience as an M&E consultant, in this article I give some examples of tricky indicators and make suggestions on how to report and present their progress.

Ideally, an indicator should cover only one aspect. In that case, it is easy to display its progress in a chart, because there is a clear and unidimensional progress trajectory. For example, if the indicator says "Three...

Our partner organisation Plant-for-the-Planet has planted one tree per month for every one of our WebMo customers in the first half of 2020! In total, 252 trees were planted in Yucatán, Mexico. Read more about our environmental and social commitment here.

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Aus aktuellem Anlass zum Digital Social Summit, hier ein kleines Märchen zum Abstimmen. Wenn man sich in 1000 Jahren ans Kaminfeuer der Zukunft setzt und Großmutter vom digitalen Wandel des  21. Jahrhunderts erzählt, was für eine Geschichte wird das sein?

Sicher für jede Organisation eine andere. Wie sah die Phase von 2000-2020 für euch aus? Abstimmen bitte hier!

Der digitale Wandel...

To be honest, as a development practitioner, I care more about people than I care for tech. I did not study IT or Engineering, but Social Sciences with a focus on International Relations and Development. Somehow, though, I ended up setting up web platforms for Monitoring and Knowledge Management and explaining in webinars and consulting assignments what Big Data, the Cloud and Open Source mean. How?

It all started with an Excel tool for Monitoring. It was my first month of an internship at the GIZ (German Development Agency) unit "Monitoring and Evaluation" in 2012, when my then...