With each passing year and technological advancement, society creates more data. This much data can be both a blessing and a curse. We have an expectation that with more data, better decisions will surely follow. Of course, this assumes that we understand what the data is telling us. With so much data coming at us,…
Across industries, companies work tirelessly to optimize their supply chains to get customers what they want, when they want it, and spend as little money as possible in the process. From agribusiness to e-commerce and information technology, companies strive for better data, stronger foresight, and breakthrough innovations that allow them to deliver high-quality goods faster…
This post originally appeared on the SEEP Network. What is the difference between a market distortion and a market disruption, and do we need to track data differently in these contexts? These are the fundamental questions that panelists at the 2018 SEEP Annual Conference session, M&E for Markets: Building Evidence, Tracking Distortions, and Measuring Success tried to answer. In…
Chemonics is preparing to join monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) experts from around the world at the American Evaluation Association’s upcoming Evaluation 2018 conference. This year’s conference, which features the theme “Speaking Truth to Power,” will include more than 40 professional development workshops, feature 700 evaluation presenters, and reach a community of more than 3,000…
Laura Glaeser currently serves as the chief of party for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) team. She is a food security, early warning, and livelihoods analysis expert with nearly 20 years of experience designing, managing, evaluating, and providing technical assistance and decision support for food-security focused programs in Africa, Latin America, and…
Before any medical commodity reaches the shelf of a clinic or the palm of a patient, it takes a journey. This journey is a supply chain. Along the way, every stop matters — from the supplier to the central warehouse to the service delivery point. And without accurate data, the whole journey is at stake.…
There are only three countries in the world where polio is still present. One of these countries is Pakistan. As Pakistan’s health system battles polio, it also sees thousands of children die each year from preventable diseases, such as measles. These life-threatening challenges are made worse by Pakistan’s difficulties with immunization coverage. Pakistan has struggled…
Most development practitioners know what an indicator is. It measures a particular characteristic or dimension of strategy-, project-, or activity-level results. It is meant to tell you (i.e. indicate), how far or close you are to your identified result. For example, if you are trying to lose weight, your indicator is your daily weight according…