Social Project’s Monitoring and Evaluation Research

Social Project’s Monitoring and Evaluation Research

.NewWebsite., Case Studies, PM4NGOs, Project Management, Statistics
AND EVALUATION RESEARCH Written and created by Communitaria Consultoria Social This quest arose out of certain discomforts developed after years working with Social Investment. Later, they turned into questions/hypotheses that demanded a searh for information/solutions. It was a long way (and still incomplete). However, it enable us to share our discomforts and perceptions. The following is a summary of the results of the phases already carried out so far. Phase 1: Understanding Social Project's Management challenges hrough a free poll on social media (in 2018) Phase 2: Identyfing monitoring and evaluating projects challenge', as well as the tools used to manage them through a poll on social media (2020) Phase 3: Collecting challenges, paths chosen and scenarios for projects monitoring and evaluation and it's use as a tool for strategic…
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Social Development Project Management Overview

Social Development Project Management Overview

.NewWebsite., Development Sector, Statistics
The Communitaria Consultoria Social has concluded a research about Social Development Project Management in Brazil: "This research reflects our discomfort on issues faced daily as a consultancy. At times, we partake in dialogue with organizations trying to clarify how to form adequate goals for projects, while other times we discuss advanced methods of impact evaluation. In the field of social investment we have many different levels of knowledge that provoke us continuously. We frequently catch ourselves in conversations about just how much the challenges we encountered during operations have in common. Therefore, the idea was to create conversation around discussing the number of coincidences and to what extent the exchange of knowledge and of practices can lead us - as part of the social investment field - to discuss and find solutions more collectively. We…
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A great year for PMD Pro

.NewWebsite., Project DPro, Project DPro Certification, Project DPro Guide, Statistics
PM4NGOs has been the guardian of PMD Pro since 2011, but its story started four years before when LINGOs began to work with a group of international NGOs in 2007 to collectively define agreed upon principles and best practices in project management in the development sector. That early group received some funding from PMIEF and included Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity, World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam and others as well as representatives from The Project Management Institute. The work of that group laid out a framework for the Project Management in Development curriculum which was developed and field tested by over 200 practitioners from 15 organizations in 20 countries between 2010 and 2011. Since the guide and certification development, 2016 was the best year: we had 3,301 new…
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