Bangladesh Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (BMEL) Activity – ME&A

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Bangladesh Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (BMEL) Activity

Project Snapshot

CLIENT: U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Bangladesh

COUNTRY: Bangladesh

PRACTICE AREA: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning and Cross-Cutting Program Support.

SUBCONTRACTOR: Social Impact

TIME PERIOD: 2018 to 2023

Overview

The Bangladesh Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (BMEL) Activity enables the US Government mission in Bangladesh to use evidence-based performance information more effectively in programmatic decision-making to achieve better development results. John Roscoe, J.D., is chief of party.

Activities

BMEL, awarded in November 2018 and run from a project office in Dhaka, is comprised of three components:

Monitoring of technical services to strengthen evidence-based decision-making for project design and implementation of development programming. Besides field-based data collection, verification, and data quality assessments, this component includes short-term advisory assistance to support Mission-wide strategic planning and alignment efforts, advisory support in the refinement of US Government mission in Bangladesh strategy documents, and assistance with activity and sector-level indicators.
Evaluation of technical services, such as mid-term and final performance evaluations, impact evaluations, geographic and sectoral assessments, activity-specific assessments and verifications, sectoral surveys, and indicator baseline analyses.
Learning and adaptive management services aimed at mainstreaming learning, adaptation, and knowledge management within the US Government mission in Bangladesh throughout the activity/project cycle. This component additionally focuses on capacity-building activities bolstering the monitoring, evaluation, and learning technical capacity for US Government mission in Bangladesh staff, implementing partners, collaborating organizations, and Government of Bangladesh counterparts.

These components run across the US Government’s portfolio in Bangladesh, which focuses on assisting Bangladesh in becoming a knowledge-based, healthy, food secure, and climate resilient middle-income democracy.