Panagora Group is a small business that provides Monitoring Evaluations and Learning services in the international development industry. Panagora currently runs for USAID/Colombia the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Activity and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Short-term Activity (MELSA).
These activities provide USAID/Colombia with technical and advisory services that facilitate informed program management decisions, shape the long-term strategic direction of programs and decision-making within the Mission, and enable USAID/Colombia to comply with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and USAID Automated Directives System (ADS) 201.
The Monitoring Component supports USAID/Colombia to increase its capacity to make well-informed decisions based on evidence and facilitate compliance with USAID ADS 201 through the following actions:
Provide performance and context monitoring services.
Design and implementation of monitoring approaches.
CDCS monitoring.
Guarantee the quality of the data.
Support the MEL community of practice.
Preparation of reports.
Support to implementing partners in the implementation of new monitoring approaches.
Responsibilities Coordinates performance and context monitoring support to USAID/Colombia.
Coordinates and supervises on all activities under the assigned Monitoring component.
Supervise and support the use data from the USAID MONITOR Information System or other information obtained from government data sources to prepare internal or external reports.
Coordinates and support the development of Data Quality Assessments (DQA) required by USAID/Colombia.
Coordinate and support the efforts to standardize and comply with USAID quality standards (ADS 201) in monitoring processes for the mission and its implementers.
Provides high level support in the design, dissemination, and implementation of new monitoring methodologies for USAID / Colombia, especially by accompanying its implementing partners.
Coordinates and support the development and implementation of guides and protocols to standardize best monitoring practices.
Coordinates the support the monitoring, reporting and analysis of mission performance indicators.
Guarantee the quality of Panagora products developed by the Monitoring Component.
Other functions assigned by the COP or its designee.