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IndiKit is a practical, online tool designed to help humanitarian and development practitioners select the right indicators and collect the required data to the highest quality.
IndiKit’s roots
The humanitarian and development world is filled with manuals on how to monitor and evaluate our work. However, we don’t always have time to seek out and read pages and pages of guidance and can resort to asking for information in a way we feel is best. This sometimes works, but this approach can also lead to unreliable and unusable data, which not only leaves us unaccountable to stakeholders, but is also inconsiderate of those who provided the information. To address this, Czech INGO, People in Need (PIN), developed a comprehensive package of indicators, based on globally standardised indicators from reputable sources, as well as detailed, well-tested guidance on how to collect the required data. The result was IndiKit: a user-friendly platform featuring hundreds of indicators from education to food security, nutrition, WASH, health, DRR and other sectors, as well as cross-cutting guidance.
PIN has recently undergone a lengthy process of reviewing its Basic Education indicators. Originally developed in 2016, we felt it was time for an update. We have reviewed the indicators to make sure they align with existing frameworks and have updated the guidance to integrate current best practice.
So, what’s new?
Updating this guidance required a review of hundreds of existing indicators across a range of education actors, including the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), the Global Education Cluster (GEC), ECHO, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UNRWA as well as cross-sector indicators, particularly those related to the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CPAoR). The indicators have been carefully mapped and cross-referenced to generate a comprehensive list of final indicators that cover the key thematic areas of education, including:
- Access to education and the learning environment
- Protection and wellbeing
- Teaching and learning; and
- Teachers and other education personnel
These categories were selected to align to the INEE Minimum Standards Domains 2, 3 and 4.
Once mapped, we began the long process of developing guidance for each indicator, many of which were completely new to our IndiKit library. This involved collecting lessons from the field, writing up proven guidance and consulting technical and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) experts within PIN as well as from GEC, INEE and ECHO. PIN’s priority has been to ensure that IndiKit content is methodologically correct and in line with the existing standards and guidance set by INEE, Sphere, global clusters and others.
The indicators themselves can be filtered by ‘Results Area’, ‘Indicator Level’ and ‘Indicator Source’. This allows users to filter by, for example, ECHO Key Objective Indicators (KIO) or Key Results Indicators (KRI), or indicators that are part of INEE’s Indicator Framework.
Our Basic Education Indicators are also now available inFrench, Spanish and Portuguese.For their much-appreciated Spanish translation support, we would like to thank our Alliance2015 partner, Ayuda en Acción.
At PIN, we are always striving to learn, collaborate and improve. We encourage IndiKit users to draw on their own M&E experience to further refine its content by proposing new indicators and improving the existing guidance via suggestions through the platform.
Interested to know more? Check out IndiKit’s education guidance and Frequently Asked Questions.