Learning Links | resources for monitoring and evaluation practitioners and decision-makers

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ALNAP wants to provide humanitarians with unfettered access to our very best resources: 25 years worth of high quality research, learning and guidance on countless issues related to humanitarian performance.   

As part of ALNAP Learning Links, we have put together our first resource pack for monitoring and evaluation practitioners and decision-makers within the humanitarian sector.  

This is a gateway to our key M&E resources, including research papers and guidelines, audiovisual materials, blogs, case studies, e-learning courses and webinars.  

Promoting peer-to-peer learning and practitioner exchange

We hope M&E practitioners and peer groups can use them as part of their work, within existing academic or training programmes, and to promote peer-to-peer learning and practitioner exchanges in any operational or learning setting.  

You can browse through the topics and choose relevant ALNAP resources for your academic or professional development syllabi, your own background reading, or as part of in-class presentations and assignments or reflection points for practitioners. 

Key M&E themes covered within ALNAP Learning Links include:   

• An overview of evaluation of humanitarian action  
• Improving monitoring in humanitarian action  
• Real-time evaluation and learning  
• Remote M&E: An exploration of key challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic  
• Evaluation of protection  
• Evaluation of cash programming  
• Use of evaluation evidence  

Quick and easy access

• ANIMATION | Alternative Approaches to Monitoring and Evaluation, video summarising ALNAP’s paper:  Breaking the Mould on M&E innovations designed for ongoing iterative decision-making and learning at the project level, 2019 
• BLOG | Remote M&E: 5 key challenges and how to address them - a summary of the emerging good practice to address 5 key challenges (inclusion; safety and wellbeing; expectations and trust; data quality; data protection) of remote M&E, 2021 
• E-LEARNING COURSE | An Introduction to Evaluating Humanitarian Action (ALNAP/UNICEF), a 10-part course aimed at evaluation managers, program managers and evaluators that expands on the pilot version of the ALNAP Evaluation of Humanitarian Action (EHA) Guide
• REPORT | Evolving evaluation practice: past, present and future challenges, a brief overview of the history of EHA and common challenges, written with young and emerging evaluators in mind, 2021 

Alongside the resources, where we can we would be very happy to help find guest lecturers to speak on these issues from among ALNAP staff, members or our wider network.  

We will be regularly updating ALNAP Learning Links with new materials, so if there are areas you think we should add to or improve, please let us know by emailing h [dot] abulhusn [at] alnap [dot] org (Hana Abul Husn), ALNAP Senior Research Officer. 

Learning is central to ALNAP’s mission. We strive to be a useful, reliable presence for M&E practitioners and decision-makers. We hope you find ALNAP Learning Links essential reading.  

Even more ALNAP resources at your fingertips

Find out more about our wider resource pack for academics, educators, trainers and students - as well as educational institutes - within the humanitarian sector.

There are more than 800 ALNAP-authored reports, analyses, blogs and multimedia assets, organised into subject areas aligned to academic courses and programmes with a humanitarian focus, for use as teaching tools, as course exercises, assignments, presentations or as background reading.