Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation 2016

Measuring concrete results of programmes aimed at strengthening capacities of political actors and democracy has over time shown to be rather challenging. Despite substantive investments made in the last decades, instruments and methodologies remain limited. NIMD attaches great value to Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) and continuously invest in developing and refining tools and innovative approaches to improve their ability to measure results. Trial-and-error is needed to strengthen the measurement of the results of our programmes because the work we do is, due to the many external (political) factors that influence it, not easily planned or measured. NIMD will carefully follow innovations in the field and invest in research and development of new ways to capture change brought about by their programmes. In addition to that, NIMD will invest in the capacity building of local partners for PME and the development of new tools and instruments for data collection.