A New Dawn: Monitoring and Evaluation during COVID-19

On 1 April 2020, USAID and IDEAL hosted a webinar on ‘Challenges and Strategies for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in the Time of COVID-19’. The virtual meeting was attended by 500 M&E professionals.

The participants of webinar completed a poll that yielded the following results.

As most organizations were responding to the challenges by using remote data collection and monitoring, the following resources were recommended.

Best practices for conducting phone surveys

Collecting Data with Mobile Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries During COVID-19

The Lean Data Guide

Guidelines for Adapting Third-Party Monitoring in the Context of Covid-19 Outbreak

Many thanks to Lloyd Banwart and Maja Persson for hosting the event and to the presenters who shared their experience.