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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...

Over the past months we have been improving our software for monitoring and collaboration in development programs. Would you like to support us and give us your feedback? We kindly invite you to apply as a beta user. This means, you will get WebMo for free for one year and in return you will provide us with your valuable feedback from time to time. This way, you will help us make WebMo even more customized to practitioners’ needs!

Reach out to us with an email if you are interested in becoming a testing organization. Please provide us with the following information so that we...

For the year 2018, we have compensated the greenhouse gases of all our flights!

In sum, we compensated a total of 11.044 kg CO2 emissions, equivalent to 293 Euros.

We compensated our flight emissions with the help of the climate protection organization atmosfair. Based on the distance of your flight, the flight class and the aircraft type, atmosfair calculates your flight’s CO2 footprint and offsetting costs. Atmosfair then uses your climate protection payment to develop renewable energy, mainly in developing countries.

Besides supporting energy projects in...

Results-based monitoring without indicators? Really? You are probably thinking now: “No way! As M&E consultants we spend so much time and capacity-building efforts to teach people about the importance of well-defined indicators and now you're telling us that indicators are not at all important?” Don’t worry, I don't. Indicators are great. Here is what I mean:

In results-based monitoring we ideally use indicators to measure progress. Provided that they meet the SMART criteria, indicators help us to make the intangible measurable and to systematically and objectively track...