Best Practices

M&E Best Practices

Guidance for indicators, baselines, DQA, and evaluation readiness.

Best Practices

Practical guidance for stronger logframes, indicators, DQA, and evaluation readiness.

Indicator design

  • Specific, measurable, time-bound
  • Separate outputs vs outcomes
  • Define calculation, frequency, disaggregation

Baselines & targets

  • Document sampling and tools
  • Train enumerators + pilot
  • Lock approved baseline values

Data quality assurance

  • Form validation rules
  • Verification workflow
  • Outlier and duplicate review

OECD-DAC alignment

Ensure evidence answers relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability.

Templates & checklists

Indicator name: Definition: Unit: Disaggregation: Frequency: Source: Calculation: Quality checks: