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MandESIG - The special interest group on Monitoring and Evaluation


Contents: | Aims | Activities | Members | How to join | Background |
MandESIG
Established in September 2008, MandESIG connects all those engaged in the monitoring and evaluation of household energy projects in developing countries.
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[top] [end]Aims

MandESIG will foster coordination and collaboration between and among those working with M&E with a general aim of operationalising M&E in the household energy (HHE) sector. More specifically the aims of the SIG are to:
  • Support information exchange, knowledge creation and help build M&E capacity among all stakeholders
  • Consolidate existing M&E resources (methodologies, techniques, best practice, reports, meetings etc.)
  • Provide a framework to increase the profile and effectiveness of existing and future M&E initiatives of key stakeholders (GVEP International, M&EED, WHO, GTZ etc)
  • Involve and learn from M&E practitioners from outside the HHE sector (health, water etc)
  • Work towards a closer integration of various M&E themes, including social development, user perspectives, technical, financial, health and emissions.

[top] [end]Activities

  • Communicate and deliberate via an e-mail discussion list discuss
  • Assemble an e-library of case studies and ‘best practice’ based on MandESIG members’ experiences
  • Where consensus, act as a advocacy group
  • Disseminate materials and information to inform policy-makers, private enterprise, financing bodies, and other stakeholders relevant to the goals of the SIG

[top] [end]Members

Clicking on the names of members takes you to their personal page on HEDON, where they may have given information about themselves. If you haven't updated your personal page, please do so. There are currently 34 members in MandESIG.

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[top] [end]How to join

We will shortly be making a signup option from here. Currently the group may be joined by:
  1. Signing in to HEDON using your username and password here. If you are not already a member, Join the Network here.
  2. Under the usercentre, click on Subscribe for the MandSIG.

[top] [end]Background

While often neglected, M&E is a critical component of any project as it allows a practitioner to measure the success of an intervention, whether in technical, social, economic, environmental or political terms, so that they can learn from the indicator results to improve future work.

M&E is also critical for generating the evidence needed to convince policy-makers, donors and businesses that household energy interventions can be successful in tackling one of the major threats to public health and in overcoming a major barrier to socio-economic development. In comparison with education, or even the water or health sectors where M&E procedures are well established, the energy sector has been slow to develop M&E methodologies and has often neglected the integration of social development and user perspectives into these functions. While the need for M&E is general to all projects, the specific tools (indicators, data collection procedures, analytical methods, etc) applied must be adapted to the specific local conditions and to the needs of stakeholders.

Yet for most there remains much uncertainty about how to operationalise M&E in the energy sector. Exactly what is ‘Best Practice’ is still being defined and developed and to date shared empirical evidence of the advantages of conducting M&E has been limited. There are still many questions which have to be answered about the what, where, how and the resources one should use to do this.

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