Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and
Learning Innovations (MERLIN) Program
What do you do in the ‘measuring impact’ space?
Have you thought about how funders can better design
and manage monitoring, evaluation, research and learning
programs?
How often do you hear funders or donors recognize their
own challenges in this sector and tell the world what they
don’t do well?
What are some of the challenges you see in MERL?
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and
Learning Innovations (MERLIN) Program
MERLIN Design challenges:
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How might we foster increased development impact through improved and
innovative tools for monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning?
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What are the cutting edge approaches to measuring impact, understanding
complex development challenges and solutions, and using evidence to drive
smart decision making and policy?
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How can we test our theory of change that increasing the use of STIP in
development programming will lead to increased impact over time and bring us
closer to reaching our common sustainable development goals?
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and
Learning Innovations (MERLIN) Program
Through MERLIN, USAID is seeking solutions or promising new and
innovative approaches…
...for monitoring or evaluating hard-to-measure results of science,
technology, innovation and partnership (STIP) and scale
programming
...for testing our theory of change that increasing the use of STIP in
development programming will lead to increased impact over time
and thus bring us closer to reaching our common sustainable
development goals
...to how USAID or other stakeholders structure evaluations and/or
engage evaluators
...to more quickly and effectively use M&E findings to enable rapid
learning and adaptive management
...for collecting, analyzing, or visualizing data on development programs
WHO?
WHAT?
HOW?
WHY?
Where
to
now?
Discussion and Questions