What is the MEL cycle? What are the steps for developing a MEL plan? Who should be involved in MEL planning and implementation? How do you collect data? What do you do with the data collected? This guide will be useful to your organisation in two main ways.

At the core, MEL is a system or cycle with all three components, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, working in tandem and as a thread through all project and program phases – from early design through implementation and completion.

MEL Approaches, Methods, and Tools to Support LLA. Drawing on examples and case studies, this section reviews approaches, methods, and tools specific to the four stages of the MEL cycle: design and planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

MEL plan goes beyond identifying indicators to track progress on your goals and objectives; it also lays out the key questions that you will seek to answer and learn from through M&E, and defines when, how, what data needed and who will be involved in the process.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) is a cycle with three parts: monitoring, evaluation, and learning. These parts help organizations set goals, gather data, and check their progress. A good MEL system helps make smart choices, improve programs, and reach goals.

This is a list of curated tools and resources that can help you plan, develop and integrate Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) into your work throughout the programme cycle, as well as to apply knowledge and adjust the approach gained …

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning – also known as MEL – encompasses adaptable frameworks with processes, best practices, and tools that are strategically tailored for the uniqueness of organizations and sector-specific initiatives.

What is “Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning” (MEL)? If you’re new to MEL, the good news is that you are probably already doing some kind of MEL, you just haven’t realized it yet. This toolkit provides an introductory overview to a very big topic, with resources for …

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is an integral part of results-based project management. SA4D uses an eight-step model to ensure that MEL is approached systematically over the course of the whole project cycle and that it is not merely seen as a tool for accountability and control, but also as a tool to stimulate learning and improvement.

In fact, best practice planning begins with MEL – taking measures such as baselines of awareness , audience knowledge, and existing behaviour, plus learning about audience interests, needs, concerns, and channel usage and preferences – from which a logical and evidence-