Monitoring and Evaluation in Practice: Data, Application, Ethics: Analysis, Sector Applications, the Future of Practice.

Monitoring and Evaluation in Practice: Data, Application, and Ethics is a guide to contemporary monitoring and evaluation. It examines how evidence is generated, analyzed, interpreted, communicated, and used for better decisions. The book covers data quality assurance, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods analysis, impact estimation, advanced analytics, machine learning, and rapid evaluation. It demonstrates M&E applications across international development, public health, education, social policy, environmental management, climate action, and natural resources. It addresses implementation science, gender, equity, ethical data practices, privacy, quality standards, meta-evaluation, and evidence use. The book also explores evaluation capacity building, systems thinking, complexity-aware approaches, artificial intelligence, and the future of evaluation. Practical methodologies and methods make this volume valuable to practitioners, government and development professionals, researchers, graduate students, evaluators, and policy analysts seeking to strengthen evaluation evidence.