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Writing for the people who run the projects.
Logframes and indicators, delivery and evidence, donor reporting, and what accountable AI actually means for a project record. Written for practitioners, whether or not you use Hoverview.
October 2026
September 2026
capture · data quality · humanitarian data · indicators · M&E
Completeness is the only dimension most systems measure
Why the data quality dimension you can measure is the one that tells you least, and what the other two actually cost.
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guide · indicators · logframe · programme design
How to write a logframe with an example and donor rules
A step-by-step guide to your first logframe, with a completed district health example and the donor requirements to check before submitting.
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data quality · education · indicators · measurement · proxy indicators
Proxy indicators and the cost of measuring the wrong thing
What a proxy indicator actually asserts, why the convenient one wins, and the two separate ways the link to the real thing breaks.
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Design · logframe · participation · problem tree · programme design
Problem trees are still worth the afternoon
What the problem tree actually buys, what the critics got right about how it was imposed, and why those are separable.
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logframe · logic model · philanthropy · programme design · results frameworks
There is no best results framework
The frameworks in use are calibrated to different constraints. What each one trades away, and how to tell which constraint you are actually under.
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data quality · M&E · provenance · spreadsheets · systems
Spreadsheets are not the problem. Copies are
Why the standard advice to move off spreadsheets misdiagnoses the failure, and what the actual failure costs.
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AI · automation bias · governance · M&E · oversight
Human in the loop is a design decision
What has to be true for a human review step to catch anything, and why the phrase usually appears in a proposal rather than in a workflow.
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data quality · donor reporting · identifiers · logframe · traceability
Numbering schemes are not cosmetic
What a donor's numbering convention actually governs, and why the sector already solved this problem one level up.
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consortium · funding · localisation · logframe · sub-grantees
When your output is their outcome
Sub-granting produces two logframes over one delivery, sitting at different levels. What that costs, and who pays it.
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beneficiaries · coordination · data quality · double counting · humanitarian
Why cross-partner overlap cannot be solved by better forms
Within-programme double counting can be fixed at the data entry point. Cross-partner overlap cannot, and pretending otherwise inflates every aggregate the sector produces.
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logframe · programme design · results frameworks · theory of change
Build the theory of change first, derive the logframe from it
The theory of change, the results framework and the logframe are not three documents. They are three views of one set of causal claims, progressively filtered.
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logframe · results frameworks
The difference between an output and an outcome, settled
The question is asked in every logframe workshop. The answer has been in the source text of the method since it was written.
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AI philanthropy · data quality · donor reporting · funding · results frameworks
The wave is real. The plumbing is not
The organisational readiness question has been asked. The harder question is whether anyone can measure what the money does.
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August 2026
Design
New versus repeat: the hardest number in the sector
Summing reach across periods without knowing whether someone is new or returning produces a number that is wrong in a direction nobody can estimate.
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Project practice · Donor
Reading a donor template as a set of rules, not a spreadsheet
Most of what a donor template requires is not in its cells. What to extract before typing, and why to write it down once.
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Donor
One programme, four donor frameworks
Four funders, four templates, one set of results underneath. What the templates disagree about is rendering, and most teams still resolve it by retyping.
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AI · logframe · programme design · results frameworks
AI can draft a logframe. It should not confirm one
Where AI helps in logframe design, where it cannot, and why the confirmation step must stay with a person.
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donor reporting · logframe · monitoring and evaluation · results-based management
When to use a logframe
A four-quadrant test for deciding when the logframe is the right instrument, and what it costs to keep one alive.
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