
Monitoring
Tracking the predictable and unpredictable to bring real-time, actionable data to decision makers.
Tracking the predictable and unpredictable to bring real-time, actionable data to decision makers.
Consistent and coherent data can provide decision-makers with a longitudinal understanding of a program’s implementation and achievement of key milestones. I4DI partners with clients around the world to give them the confidence in their data, so they can be confident in their decisions.
I4DI’s Third Party Monitoring (TPM) experts specialize in independently verifying your program’s implementation outputs and Monitoring and Evaluation activities, especially in difficult to access and/or conflict zones. As an external partner, we provide a layer of transparency and accountability, working with local experts and organizations on the ground to validate monitoring information needed by all levels of implementing partners, donors, or funders. Using robust and appropriate monitoring tools and methods, I4DI captures objective insights from both quantitative and qualitative indicators to give you a holistic understanding of your program performance. More than just providing monitoring services, I4DI also builds the capacities of local actors, enabling them to learn more about rigorous data collection, analysis, and reporting to better support your projects. Building and maintaining a strong monitoring system is essential to achieving lasting results, especially in complex and emerging markets.
Examples of third-party monitoring services include:
Collection of on-site indicator data and verification
Risk tracking, assessment and mitigation
Local perspective tracking and feedback mechanism
Social safeguards monitoring
Context monitoring and cross-cutting concerns
Grounded in systems thinking, I4DI’s monitoring experts specialize in complexity-aware practices to effectively manage the changing and unpredictable contexts in which your program might operate. When a dynamic situation can make relationships between outputs and outcomes unclear, I4DI focuses on gathering data from the blind spots of traditional performance monitoring, like unintended consequences, confounding variables, and non-linear change over time.
We help our clients and partners apply adaptive management processes that allow them to remain flexible amid potential rapid course corrections in programmatic activities. We also apply systems-thinking to better understand how the relationships between actors and the interconnectedness of external factors can and will affect program results.
I4DI knows that working towards social and environmental impact in developing contexts is complicated, and requires the utmost attention to anticipate future challenges before they become roadblocks for your team. Our expertise in complexity-aware monitoring best practices can help organizations innovate solutions to effectively address emergent issues.
I4DI’s Real-time Monitoring (RTM) experts specialize in innovative solutions to timely and accurate data collection that gives decision-makers like you immediate insights into your program activities. Having the ability to collect, analyze, and use real-time data, rather than waiting on insights from monthly and quarterly reports, allows implementers to take corrective action right when a problem reveals itself, instead of after it has already caused disruptions in program effectiveness.
Given I4DI’s technology-forward approach, we use mobile applications and dashboards equipped with automated analysis to give our clients this edge. This data-driven enabler of adaptive management will allow your organization to be more responsive and responsible in contexts that are dynamic. As long-time development practitioners, I4DI knows that the ability to adapt to a world in flux is a driver of sustainable impact.
I4DI’s researchers and software developers specialize in building and deploying digital applications that solve typical monitoring challenges for our clients. These digital monitoring tools are key solutions to rapidly capture data and understand its implications in real-time. In that way, you can make stronger decisions knowing the right data is in your hand. Digital applications have the potential to shorten the time of your data collection, improve accuracy and reliability of incoming information, and save financial resources that can then be allocated to other critical phases of the project– like analysis, adaptive action and dissemination. As a tech-enabled company, we are on the forefront of innovation, leveraging technology to improve our research practices to deliver quality products and services to our clients.
Examples of digital monitoring tools we use include:
Remote sensing technologies Real time listening and analytic tools
GIS Data Collection Zen-O Survey Designer
A mobile data collection platform Real-time data visualizations and dashboards
Learn more about the background and expertise of our team of evaluation specialists, technologists, and development practitioners. We would love to hear more about what problem you are currently working to solve.