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Date Reference Automation Part 4: Distinct Count of Participants in Multiple Activities

Your project is taking off; you registered a lot of participants in your project database and are implementing multiple different …

Date Reference Automation Part 3: New and Continuing Participant Counts by Reporting Period

Imagine your project has a massive participant target that is six digits long, and your client wants each routine report …

Cooperatives Mobilize Local Resources in Liberia

This article originally appeared on Marketlinks.org.  In 2010, Sebehill Cocoa Farmers Association (SEKUFA), a purchasing cooperative, was in the business …

Date Reference Automation Part 2: Counting Project Participants

As data experts, we love precision in our project performance reporting. One of the data management nightmares that many implementers …

Unraveling the Mysteries of Social and Behavior Change

A great television commercial has been airing recently in the United States. Couples each get a long ribbon to roll …

Date Reference Automation Part 1: Multiple Reporting Periods

Let’s say you are starting a new five-year project on July 1, but your client is going to expect performance …

ACDI/VOCA Farmer to Farmer David Ringuette and son

A Family Affair: Father and Son Volunteer for Farmer-to-Farmer

In the past three years, I have completed 17 volunteer assignments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With 20 years …

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Introducing the Monitoring and Evaluation Bullet Chart

This edition of Data Digest is for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) people out there, or monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), …

ACDI/VOCA Uganda RWANU woman with goats

Giving Women Goats: Why Gender Matters

When I was nine years old, my uncle gave me a calf. At least, I thought he did. It happened …

ACDI/VOCA Uganda RWANU market systems

Sowing the Seeds of Resilience through Market Systems Development

Growing up on a small homestead farm left me with the desire to grow some of my own food because …

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Data 101 Part 3: Taking Your Data to the Next Level

If you missed the first and second posts in the Data Digest series, I recommend you start there. In these …

ACDI/VOCA Women New Year's Resolutions

Making New Year’s (and New Projects’) Resolutions Stick

Last year, I made four (four!) major New Year’s resolutions: Be more productive. Run a marathon. Be less stressed. Exercise …