Monitoring & Evaluation

Challenges, Setbacks and Opportunities: The Role of Women in Governance Amidst the Conflict in Yemen

Supporting Women's Livelihoods in Northeast Syria

Using ChatGPT for Development: An Interview with ChatGPT

Re-Thinking the Focus of Rapid Needs Assessments

Frontiers of Gender Work in Global Development

MEL Foundations for Adaptive Programs

Apr 4, 20236 min read

Using ChatGPT for Development: An Interview with ChatGPT

With current analysis suggesting that ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in Internet history, we wanted to consider its potential uses...

Feb 19, 20233 min read

Re-Thinking the Focus of Rapid Needs Assessments

Focusing on the livelihoods of vulnerable families in the aftermath of the Türkiye/Syria earthquake

Dec 13, 20213 min read

MEL Foundations for Adaptive Programs

A call to revisit the foundations on which program adaptation is based.

Nov 10, 20214 min read

Should We ‘Tripadvisor’ Aid?

I turn 50 this month (eep!). If you told my teenage self that I would one day decide what to buy, where to go on holiday, and where to...

Sep 15, 20215 min read

What I’ve Learned from My Work with Third-Party Monitoring

Twelve years of working with third-party monitoring (TPM) in fragile contexts has taught me a crucial lesson: TPM agents are more effective

Aug 26, 20214 min read

From Sub to USAID Prime: What We Learned Along the Way

USAID recently published an article highlighting Proximity’s journey from a subcontractor to the prime implementer on multiple USAID...

May 24, 20193 min read

Protection Series Part 1 | A Working Analytical Framework

As research interacts with the humanitarian and development sphere, some effort has been made to harmonize core theoretical concepts...

May 24, 20191 min read

Introducing our 'Protection in Research' Series

There has been and continues to be an important need for field research in fragile and conflict-affected areas. Examples of remote-based...