We are so excited to launch our new WebMo promo video! After a full day of broadcasting with DAS GUTE WERK Bewegtbild, the final video is now online on youtube. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJ1jZHc2yI
WebMo is the perfect tool for monitoring and project management in the development cooperation sector. Developed for practitioners, by practitioners.
In March 2017, I attended the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) conference in Kampala, Uganda. I got the chance to present our web-based M&E software WebMo and our consultancy and training services. The conference was a great opportunity to meet M&E practitioners and listen to their experiences and needs when it comes to software. These are my personal takeaways:
Excel: M&E practitioners like to use Excel and appreciate training. Excel continues to be a popular tool for data analysis and management. It is widely used, especially in locations with an... 
Hooray, energypedia consult turns 5 years old! What started in spring 2012 with four enthusiastic people struggling with bad internet connection, has grown over the past years to a successful enterprise with seven people working in four different locations. During this time our initial focus on IT for M&E and knowledge management and on energy access research broadened to comprehensive M&E advisory services and, more recently, to online trainings and webinars. We are looking forward to the next years to come!
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...
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)...
In little sectors the clash between work reality and expectations of staff is as wide as in the development cooperation or aid sector. The idea that a job in this area will provide a sense of existential meaning and fulfillment is widespread. However, daily routine often looks quite different: Instead of working with beneficiaries or partner organizations towards a better world and future many end up with lots of administrative work, institutional coordination and endless approval cycles. Hundreds of emails that need to be read, deleted or answered, combined with general work overload...
I am proud to announce that energypedia consult will be present with a booth at the annual conference of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) in Kampala, Uganda, on 29 - 31 March 2017!
Feel free to drop by to
discuss latest developments of IT tools for Monitoring & Evaluation, share your experience and needs when it comes to IT support for the M&E process, learn about our web-based M&E software WebMo, get a free soft copy of our M&Excel Guide on using Excel for managing monitoring data, learn about our M&E... 
I guess, while you’re reading this headline, your first association is Wikipedia and this incredible achievement of putting the entire knowledge of our mankind on one platform. Totally voluntary, open and free for use. Just great and inspiring! Wikipedia proofs that people can achieve amazing things if they work together.
For working together and for sharing knowledge on such a platform you need a wiki. Wiki Wiki (quick quick) is the name of the free shuttle bus on the Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software was...
You want to add a table to your wiki page but don’t know how to do it?
There are two different options: Either you create a new table directly in the wiki page. Or you import an already existing table from Excel. In this blog I explain you both options.
1. Create a new table
To create a new table, first click on the edit button on the top right corner of your page. When the edit toolbar appears, click on the “table” icon.
Edit bar
...
Probably every M&E officer has been in this situation: The deadline for the annual report is approaching, but the data is just not ready. It takes time, effort and nerves to go through all the different monitoring documents that have piled up throughout the year and to copy-paste the relevant information into the format that meets the donor’s requirements.
Even when you work in a neatly organized monitoring system and the data actually is complete and up-to-date, your internal monitoring system and the donor’s reporting format might be two very different stories. This is why...