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...
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Meet Us in Kampala at the 8th AfrEA Conference!
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...We are Wiki
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...
How to Insert Tables into Your Wiki Page
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.
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Reports with a Click of a Button: MS Word Export Feature
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...
Merry Christmas!
Dear all,
the energypedia consult team is grateful to look back on a successful year 2016! We hope to continue the good cooperation with you and are always open for any questions or new ideas.
2017 will bring new exciting projects: New webinars on IT for Monitoring and Evaluation, a major software update and many new wiki applications.
I would also like to take the opportunity to bid our colleague Banjamin farewell who will start a new job in January. He has been with the company since its birth. Thank you, Benjamin, for your tireless comittment to take the...
Organize Your Events With a Colorful Calendar!
Getting an overview of what’s going on in your team is not always easy. How many times have you written down an important appointment in that old notepad of yours or on that post-it note that’s nowhere to be found anymore? We don’t always add all business appointments or events in our digital calendars immediately, and sometimes it’s easy to lose track of things. For this purpose, a very useful feature that we have incorporated to our wiki tools, is the Events Calendar, which helps you get a good perspective of what’s going on in your team. Our calendar displays different events, in...
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Risk Monitoring with WebMo
Development cooperation often takes place in highly versatile or fragile contexts. But even when the setting is not one of open conflict or severe state weakness, development projects need to be aware of and manage the risks that surround them. This is a challenge for planning, management and monitoring. But what to monitor exactly?
In its 2012 publication “Managing Risks in Fragile and Transitional Contexts”, the OECD distinguishes three types of risks (see graph below). While contextual and institution risks describe processes that the development...
Setting Up a Monitoring System in Myanmar
Last month Robert and I, Johanna, assisted the GIZ mini-grid project in Myanmar to set up a monitoring system. During five exciting days of workshops, we went through the wide diversity of activities they plan to do in the coming months. That way we were able to identify the most suitable indicators how to measure best the success of the project. We introduced the results model and the GIZ standards to the team. The results model allows the team to identify the areas that are crucial in their daily work to promote mini-grids along all relevant stakeholders on union, state, and rural...