InterAction members justifiably pride themselves on their contributions to human and environmental protection and well-being. Through decades of service provision and advocacy, carried out directly and with partners, InterAction members have gained substantial insight and experience, allowing our community to undertake a wide array of development and humanitarian interventions.

What is M&E?

Nurturing, learning from, improving and eventually judging the effectiveness of our work requires processes and tools commonly understood as monitoring and evaluation (M&E). When integrated deliberately into our work and conducted with appropriate rigor, M&E supports learning and quality improvement at an intervention, program or sector level, for a population or area, as well as for an organization itself. Tracking and assessing our work allows us to make crucial improvements to our performance and offers invaluable assurance to our partners that their collaboration with us produces positive change.

Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Working Group

One of InterAction's mandates is to support member organizations’ capability to conduct programming that meets and exceeds internal self-certification standards for quality and effectiveness. InterAction, members and partners are working together to strengthen our M&E capacities through experience and resource sharing, as well as opportunities to work with outside experts. The international NGO community and our partners – including local civil society organizations, host country governments, donors and those we seek to serve – widely acknowledge M&E’s importance.

InterAction’s Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Working Group (EPEWG) is dedicated to building NGO monitoring and evaluation capacity, and is currently focused on NGO accountability, impact evaluation and advocacy evaluation. The working group also informs advocacy initiatives to influence the U.S. and global aid effectiveness discourse.

The EPEWG is open to InterAction members only. Non-members are welcome to join our Evaluation Interest Group (EIG), which receives most EPEWG updates and is invited to participate in most EPEWG events. To join either the EPEWG or EIG listserv, please contact Laia Grino.