MIS software/platform resource
Activity Info
Humanitarian project monitoring tool. Free for up to 10 users.
https://www.activityinfo.org/
AKVO
Powerful software for collection of data using a smart phone and mapping. Good for online reporting and data sharing. $5000/year
www.akvo.org/products/akvoflow
ArcGIS
ArcGIS provides contextual tools for mapping and spatial reasoning. Price on demand.
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis
Atlas.ti
Qualitative data analysis. $1290
atlasti.com
Canava
Simple way to design good documents and useful for producing diagrams when finalising a monitoring or evaluation reports. $150
https://www.canva.com/
Changeroo
Develop Theories of Change. $345
https://www.changeroo.com/
Coggle
Create mind maps. $60
https://coggle.it/
CommCare
A powerful mobile data collection platform. $3000
https://www.dimagi.com/commcare/
CKAN
A powerful data management system with tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. Free.
https://ckan.org/
CSPro
The Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) produced by the US Census Bureau. A powerful program for entering, editing, tabulating, and disseminating census and survey data. Used worldwide for major surveys, censuses and household income expenditure surveys. Free.
https://www.census.gov/data/software/cspro.html
Dedooose
A cross-platform app for analysing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data and more. $168.
https://www.dedoose.com/
Do View
Visualise outcomes and drawing road maps and Theory of Change diagrams. $199
http://doview.com
Dev Results
Specially designed for the international development community includes M&E, mapping, budgeting, checklists, forms, and collaboration facilities. Price on demand.
https://www.devresults.com/
Dylomo
Build and present program logic models that you can interact with. Free.
https://dylomo.com/
Echo Mobile
Echo Mobile offers a mobile platform that has a range of offerings including data collection, field reporting, data visualisation and communications. $600.
www.echomobile.org
Epi Collect
A web and mobile app for the generation of forms and hosted websites to store and display data. Developed by Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London. Free.
www.epicollect.net
Epi Info
Epi Info provides data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals. Free.
https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html
Ethno Corder
A mobile multimedia survey software for your iPhone. Price on demand.
http://www.ethnocorder.com/
Fieldata
Fieldata for online storage and processing of a variety of data with mobile data collection. Free trial and costs then quoted.
http://fieldata.in
First Mile Geo
Conducts surveys and site assessments through web or mobile. Monitor implementation and conduct impact evaluations and risk management. Price on demand.
www.firstmilegeo.com
Form Site
Builds forms for numerous applications not just M&E. $168.
www.formsite.com
Freedom Fone
Freedom Fone is free and open source software that enables you to create and share audio content using Interactive Voice Response (IVR), voicemail and SMS. Free.
www.freedomfone.org
Frontline
Automatic SMS message building system. $300
www.frontlinesms.com
Google Charts
Charts for websites. Free.
developers.google.com/chart
Google Forms
Create a full range of forms. Free.
www.google.co.uk/forms
Google Drive sheets
Make graphs and charts from data for use on website. Free.
www.google.co.uk/sheets/about
Gnumeric
Open source spreadsheet. Free.
www.gnumeric.org
Granity
Management and reporting software for Not-for-profits. Price on demand.
https://granity.org/
Groundsource
A communication system using SMS. Price on demand.
www.groundsource.co
Hyper RESEARCH
Keyword coding, mind-mapping tools, theory building and more. $999
http://www.researchware.com/
Iform Builder
A mobile data collection application. $2500
https://www.zerionsoftware.com/iformbuilder/
Kashana
To enable reporting against the Logical Framework. Free.
http://kashana.org/
KeySurvey
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.keysurvey.co.uk
Kobo Toolbox
Data collection, analysis and management. Free.
www.kobotoolbox.org
Libre office
Open source documentation system. Free.
www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc
LimeSurvey
Survey software. $400
www.limesurvey.org
LogAlto
Software built for M&E of development projects. Price on demand.
https://www.logalto.com/en/
Logframer
A project management application for projects based on the logical framework. Free.
https://www.logframer.eu/
Lucidchart
Drawing flow charts. $60
https://www.lucidchart.com/
Magpi
Mobile data collection and visualisation. $6000
home.magpi.com
Minitab
Statistical software. $1595
www.minitab.com/en-us
Miradi
Adaptive software for conservation projects. $300
https://www.miradi.org/
MLwiN
Multi level modelling. Price on demand.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwin/
mWater
Data collection and presentation for water projects. Price on demand.
http://www.mwater.co/
Newdea
M&E reporting system designed for International Development projects. Price on demand.
http://www.newdea.com
Nvivo
Powerful software for qualitative data analysis. Price on demand.
http://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/nvivo-produc…
Omnigraffle
For drawing diagrams and flow charts. $99
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
Online Exam Builder
If you have to set up tests as part of M&E training. $240
https://www.onlineexambuilder.com/
Open Data Kit
A significant and easy to use software for data collection on Android phones. Free.
opendatakit.org
Open Refine
A tool for working with messy data. Free.
http://openrefine.org/
Open Street Map
A mapping service with data on and editable. Free.
www.openstreetmap.org
Pendragon Forms
Form design. $480
www.pendragonsoftware.com
PoiMapper
Mobile forms and data collection. $120
www.poimapper.com
PollDaddy
Surveys, polls and quizzes. $200
polldaddy.com
QGIS
A powerful GIS system able to produce many variations of data on maps. Free.
www.qgis.org
QuestionPro
Survey software with lots of options. Used by companies. $144.
www.questionpro.com
Rapid SMS
SMS communication system. Free.
www.rapidsms.org
RED Cap
Building and managing online surveys and databases. Price on demand.
https://www.project-redcap.org/
Resource Map
Software for tracking resources. Free.
instedd.org/technologies/resource-map
Sensemaker
Links micro-narratives with human sense-making to create advanced decision support, research and monitoring capability in both large and small organisations. Price on demand.
http://cognitive-edge.com/sensemaker/
Smap
Data collection tool. Price on demand.
smap.com.au
SnapSurveys
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.snapsurveys.com
SPSS
The leading statistical software. $948.
www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/analytics/spss
StatPac
Data analysis software. $695.
www.statpac.com
Stata
Stata is a statistical software package for data analysis, data management, and graphics. $1200.
https://www.stata.com/
Survey Monkey
Very popular survey collection software. $408/.
www.surveymonkey.com
Survey CTO
Offline or online data collection. $1188/.
www.surveyCTO.com
SurveyBe
Offline data collection and management designed for international development projects. $720.
http://surveybe.com/
SurveyGizmo
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.surveygizmo.com
Systmapp
Connecting monitoring, planning, and knowledge management. Price on demand.
http://www.systmapp.com/
Taro Works
Data collection and management. $5004.
taroworks.org
TOCO
Software to create a Theory of Change. $60.
http://www.theoryofchange.org/toco-software/
Tola Data
M&E platform to create data-driven impact. Price on demand.
https://www.toladata.com/
Vizualize Free
Data preparation and visualisation. Price on demand.
visualizefree.com
VUE
Software to draw visualisations. Could be used for Theory of Change diagrams. Free.
http://vue.tufts.edu/about/index.cfm
Web Mo
M&E reporting software. $1380.
https://webmo.info/
yEd
A diagram editor to generate drawings of diagrams.Free.
https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
READING MATERIALS
Food Security, Livelihoods and Rural Development
Humanitarian project monitoring tool. Free for up to 10 users.
https://www.activityinfo.org/
AKVO
Powerful software for collection of data using a smart phone and mapping. Good for online reporting and data sharing. $5000/year
www.akvo.org/products/akvoflow
ArcGIS
ArcGIS provides contextual tools for mapping and spatial reasoning. Price on demand.
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis
Atlas.ti
Qualitative data analysis. $1290
atlasti.com
Canava
Simple way to design good documents and useful for producing diagrams when finalising a monitoring or evaluation reports. $150
https://www.canva.com/
Changeroo
Develop Theories of Change. $345
https://www.changeroo.com/
Coggle
Create mind maps. $60
https://coggle.it/
CommCare
A powerful mobile data collection platform. $3000
https://www.dimagi.com/commcare/
CKAN
A powerful data management system with tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. Free.
https://ckan.org/
CSPro
The Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) produced by the US Census Bureau. A powerful program for entering, editing, tabulating, and disseminating census and survey data. Used worldwide for major surveys, censuses and household income expenditure surveys. Free.
https://www.census.gov/data/software/cspro.html
Dedooose
A cross-platform app for analysing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data and more. $168.
https://www.dedoose.com/
Do View
Visualise outcomes and drawing road maps and Theory of Change diagrams. $199
http://doview.com
Dev Results
Specially designed for the international development community includes M&E, mapping, budgeting, checklists, forms, and collaboration facilities. Price on demand.
https://www.devresults.com/
Dylomo
Build and present program logic models that you can interact with. Free.
https://dylomo.com/
Echo Mobile
Echo Mobile offers a mobile platform that has a range of offerings including data collection, field reporting, data visualisation and communications. $600.
www.echomobile.org
Epi Collect
A web and mobile app for the generation of forms and hosted websites to store and display data. Developed by Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London. Free.
www.epicollect.net
Epi Info
Epi Info provides data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals. Free.
https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html
Ethno Corder
A mobile multimedia survey software for your iPhone. Price on demand.
http://www.ethnocorder.com/
Fieldata
Fieldata for online storage and processing of a variety of data with mobile data collection. Free trial and costs then quoted.
http://fieldata.in
First Mile Geo
Conducts surveys and site assessments through web or mobile. Monitor implementation and conduct impact evaluations and risk management. Price on demand.
www.firstmilegeo.com
Form Site
Builds forms for numerous applications not just M&E. $168.
www.formsite.com
Freedom Fone
Freedom Fone is free and open source software that enables you to create and share audio content using Interactive Voice Response (IVR), voicemail and SMS. Free.
www.freedomfone.org
Frontline
Automatic SMS message building system. $300
www.frontlinesms.com
Google Charts
Charts for websites. Free.
developers.google.com/chart
Google Forms
Create a full range of forms. Free.
www.google.co.uk/forms
Google Drive sheets
Make graphs and charts from data for use on website. Free.
www.google.co.uk/sheets/about
Gnumeric
Open source spreadsheet. Free.
www.gnumeric.org
Granity
Management and reporting software for Not-for-profits. Price on demand.
https://granity.org/
Groundsource
A communication system using SMS. Price on demand.
www.groundsource.co
Hyper RESEARCH
Keyword coding, mind-mapping tools, theory building and more. $999
http://www.researchware.com/
Iform Builder
A mobile data collection application. $2500
https://www.zerionsoftware.com/iformbuilder/
Kashana
To enable reporting against the Logical Framework. Free.
http://kashana.org/
KeySurvey
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.keysurvey.co.uk
Kobo Toolbox
Data collection, analysis and management. Free.
www.kobotoolbox.org
Libre office
Open source documentation system. Free.
www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc
LimeSurvey
Survey software. $400
www.limesurvey.org
LogAlto
Software built for M&E of development projects. Price on demand.
https://www.logalto.com/en/
Logframer
A project management application for projects based on the logical framework. Free.
https://www.logframer.eu/
Lucidchart
Drawing flow charts. $60
https://www.lucidchart.com/
Magpi
Mobile data collection and visualisation. $6000
home.magpi.com
Minitab
Statistical software. $1595
www.minitab.com/en-us
Miradi
Adaptive software for conservation projects. $300
https://www.miradi.org/
MLwiN
Multi level modelling. Price on demand.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwin/
mWater
Data collection and presentation for water projects. Price on demand.
http://www.mwater.co/
Newdea
M&E reporting system designed for International Development projects. Price on demand.
http://www.newdea.com
Nvivo
Powerful software for qualitative data analysis. Price on demand.
http://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/nvivo-produc…
Omnigraffle
For drawing diagrams and flow charts. $99
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
Online Exam Builder
If you have to set up tests as part of M&E training. $240
https://www.onlineexambuilder.com/
Open Data Kit
A significant and easy to use software for data collection on Android phones. Free.
opendatakit.org
Open Refine
A tool for working with messy data. Free.
http://openrefine.org/
Open Street Map
A mapping service with data on and editable. Free.
www.openstreetmap.org
Pendragon Forms
Form design. $480
www.pendragonsoftware.com
PoiMapper
Mobile forms and data collection. $120
www.poimapper.com
PollDaddy
Surveys, polls and quizzes. $200
polldaddy.com
QGIS
A powerful GIS system able to produce many variations of data on maps. Free.
www.qgis.org
QuestionPro
Survey software with lots of options. Used by companies. $144.
www.questionpro.com
Rapid SMS
SMS communication system. Free.
www.rapidsms.org
RED Cap
Building and managing online surveys and databases. Price on demand.
https://www.project-redcap.org/
Resource Map
Software for tracking resources. Free.
instedd.org/technologies/resource-map
Sensemaker
Links micro-narratives with human sense-making to create advanced decision support, research and monitoring capability in both large and small organisations. Price on demand.
http://cognitive-edge.com/sensemaker/
Smap
Data collection tool. Price on demand.
smap.com.au
SnapSurveys
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.snapsurveys.com
SPSS
The leading statistical software. $948.
www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/analytics/spss
StatPac
Data analysis software. $695.
www.statpac.com
Stata
Stata is a statistical software package for data analysis, data management, and graphics. $1200.
https://www.stata.com/
Survey Monkey
Very popular survey collection software. $408/.
www.surveymonkey.com
Survey CTO
Offline or online data collection. $1188/.
www.surveyCTO.com
SurveyBe
Offline data collection and management designed for international development projects. $720.
http://surveybe.com/
SurveyGizmo
Survey software. Price on demand.
www.surveygizmo.com
Systmapp
Connecting monitoring, planning, and knowledge management. Price on demand.
http://www.systmapp.com/
Taro Works
Data collection and management. $5004.
taroworks.org
TOCO
Software to create a Theory of Change. $60.
http://www.theoryofchange.org/toco-software/
Tola Data
M&E platform to create data-driven impact. Price on demand.
https://www.toladata.com/
Vizualize Free
Data preparation and visualisation. Price on demand.
visualizefree.com
VUE
Software to draw visualisations. Could be used for Theory of Change diagrams. Free.
http://vue.tufts.edu/about/index.cfm
Web Mo
M&E reporting software. $1380.
https://webmo.info/
yEd
A diagram editor to generate drawings of diagrams.Free.
https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
READING MATERIALS
Food Security, Livelihoods and Rural Development
- http://www.donorplatform.org/index.php
- http://www.foodsec.org/web
- http://www.fao.org
- http://www.future-agricultures.org
- http://gaap.ifpri.info/
- http://www.un-foodsecurity.org/
- http://www.ifad.org/
- http://www.iirr.org/
- http://viacampesina.org/en/
- http://www.2020resilience.ifpri.info/
- http://2020conference.ifpri.info/
- http://www.malnutrition.org/
- http://practicalaction.org
- http://www.un.org/en/issues/food/taskforce/
- http://www.undp.org
- http://practicalinitiatives.org/
- http://mymande.org/
- http://albordedelcaos.com/acerca-del-blog/
- http://www.arcgis.com/features/
- http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/
- http://www.theclearinitiative.org/
- https://www.climate-eval.org
- http://www.pepfar.gov/resources/implementer/data_quality/index.htm
- http://evaluateca.wordpress.com/
- http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name/
- http://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/
- http://www.ioce.net/en/index.php
- http://www.ipdet.org
- https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jmmss/index
- http://www.wikiprogress.org
- http://www.outcomemapping.ca/
- http://www.managingforimpact.org/
- http://preval.org/en
- http://reflectlearn.org/
- http://www.sas2.net/
- http://www.tools4dev.org
- http://www.evidenceondemand.info
- http://www.progressoutofpoverty.org/
- http://research.brac.net/
- http://www.cgiar.org/
- http://books.cgiar.org/cgiar/index.html
- http://www.developmentgateway.org/
- http://www.developmentinpractice.org/
- http://www.eldis.org/
- http://www.idrc.ca
- http://www.ifpri.org/
- http://www.ids.ac.uk/
- http://www.ids.ac.uk/knowledge-services
- http://www.iied.org/
- http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/
- http://www.researchintouse.com/
- http://www.rimisp.org/
- http://kdid.org/