When providing relief to people affected by crisis, how do we know if we’re doing it right? How do we know what we need to change to improve? For many humanitarian organisations, this is hard to know.
Little progress has been made on the monitoring front and three issues in particular keep coming up: how to use qualitative methods to collect data; how to monitor the outcomes of programmes; and how to make M&E more useful for decision-making at project level. ALNAP has published three papers exploring each of these issues and looking at ways of fixing them.
