Techniques and Tools
The team at ISF-UTS has curated a set of techniques and tools to support the curated approaches.
Techniques – Within this website, we refer to techniques as the ways in which MEL can be done. For example, card sorting, participatory activities and generating insights.
Tools – Within this website, we refer to tools as both digital and physical items that support MEL. For example digital analysis platforms, cards, and checklists.
Planning
Digital Tools
Digital tools expand opportunities for remote and collaborative MEL.
Theory of Change
Theories of change track the types of outcomes that a program intends to achieve for different actors.
Logistics Checklist
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Integrity Checklist
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Effective Interviewing Guide
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Planning Template
Do-no-harm Strategy
Prompt Writing
Data collection and generation
Difference Mapping
Journey mapping helps to identify the steps that the participant has taken to come to their current state.
Smartphone Photography
These smartphone photography helps can be used for photography observations or a photovoice activity.
Audio Surveys
Audio surveys allows users to submit short audio clips rather than typing responses. They are primarily used in self-administered internet-based surveys and replace open-response questions.
Unpacking significance
This simple framework can help unpack descriptions of change and untangle significance.
Digital Tools
Digital tools expand opportunities for remote and collaborative MEL.
Visioning
Visioning allows participants to dream about what the future could look like. This helps them create a strategy for change.
Daily Clock
Daily clocks are a participatory way to explore the activities and tasks that individuals do during an average day.
Journey Mapping
Journey mapping is a way of making a ‘comic strip’ for a participant and their journey around a certain activity or experience.
Mapping
Mapping activities help explore spatial norms, changes, and outcomes for participants. Some common versions include mobility maps and resource maps.
Card Sorts
Card sorts are a participatory tool to engage respondents in categorising, organising, or ordering information. Cards often have visual or textual information. Card sorts can be used in interviews or focus groups.
Ladders
Laddering activities help to identify how individuals perceive themselves within a range of behaviours, activities or viewpoints. Some common versions include participation, happiness, safety, wellbeing and confidence.
Matrices
Matrices help to identify societal and household norms. Some common versions include roles, responsibilities, opportunities, decisions, access, and social capital.
Data analysis, sensemaking and utilisation
Unpacking significance
This simple framework can help unpack descriptions of change and untangle significance.
Personas
Personas are representative yet fictional characters used for both evaluation and planning purposes.
Data Visualisation
Data visualisation is the process of bringing information to life through shape, colour, order, and structure. We highlight two unique tools relevant for qualitative data.
Digital Tools
Digital tools expand opportunities for remote and collaborative MEL.
Generating Insights
Getting from data to short statements that summarise your findings is an important step in sharing information.
Debriefs, Sensemaking and Collaborative Analysis
Sensemaking workshops allow teams to synthesis results, generate insights and identify recommendations.
Thematic and Content Analysis
Thematic and content analyses are two processes of identifying patterns, themes, commonalities, and divergences within textual data.
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DISCLAIMER
This project has been funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The views expressed in this website are the author’s alone and are not necessarily the views of the Australian Government.