This webinar is a comprehensive session tailored for Monitoring and Evaluation professionals seeking to navigate the complex landscape of privacy regulations.

The session will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of key privacy laws, such as GDPR, CCPA, and others, and their impact on data collection, storage, and analysis within M&E practices. Participants will also learn about best practices for compliance and strategies for adapting to evolving privacy standards.

We will explore the critical aspects of privacy laws that directly affect M&E practices, focusing on both the theoretical and practical applications.

We will provide guidance on handling personal and sensitive data under various regulations and discuss the implications these laws have on data collection and analysis. Additionally, we will cover ethical responsibilities and data security measures that M&E specialists must consider to safeguard participant information.

In summary, we will cover:

Key concepts:

• Personal data
• Processing
• Controllers
• Processors
• Lawfullness of processing

Key topics

• Key privacy regulations and their relevance to M&E practices: Global perspectives on privacy legislation(EU,US, Nigeria, and Brazil)
• Implications of privacy legislation on data collection and analysis
• Overview of joint controllership and data processing agreements and their implications for M&E activities.
• Checklist on drafting and managing data processing agreements to define roles and responsibilities.

Data security and ethical considerations in M&E:

• Best practices for data privacy compliance in M&E
• Adapting M&E practices to evolving privacy standards (a checklist)

Is this Webinar for me?

• Do you wish to learn more about data privacy laws and ethical considerations?
• Are you wondering how to protect data integrity and confidentiality?
• Do you need guidance on how to adapt your M&E practices to comply with privacy laws and protect data integrity?

Then, join our Webinar!

About the Presenters and ActivityInfo

Alexander Bertram, Executive Director of BeDataDriven and founder of ActivityInfo, is a graduate of the American University’s School of International Service and started his career in international assistance fifteen years ago working with IOM in Kunduz, Afghanistan and later worked as an Information Management officer with UNICEF in DR Congo. With UNICEF, frustrated with the time required to build data collection systems for each new programme, he worked on the team that developed ActivityInfo, a simplified platform for M&E data collection. In 2010, he left UNICEF to start BeDataDriven and develop ActivityInfo full time. Since then, he has worked with organizations in more than 70 countries to deploy ActivityInfo for monitoring & evaluation.

Victoria Manya has a diverse background and extensive expertise in data-driven impact, project evaluation, and organizational learning. She holds a Master’s degree in local development strategies from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the African Studies Center at Leiden University. With over ten years of experience, Victoria has collaborated with NGOs, law firms, SaaS companies, tech-enabled startups, higher institutions, and governments across three continents, specializing in research, policy, strategy, knowledge valorization, evaluation, customer education, and learning for development. Her previous roles as a knowledge valorization manager at the INCLUDE platform and as an Organizational Learning Advisor at Sthrive B.V. involved delivering high- quality M&E reports, trainings, ensuring practical knowledge management, and moderating learning platforms, respectively. Today, as a Customer Education Specialist at ActivityInfo, Victoria leverages her experience and understanding of data leverage to assist customers in successfully deploying ActivityInfo.

ActivityInfo is an information management platform perfect for monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian coordination and case management. For more than a decade, the ActivityInfo team has been supporting humanitarian operations and development programmes worldwide catering for emerging needs for data collection and analysis. UN agencies, INGOS and NGOs use the platform to centralize and standardize data collection, display the impact of their activities while maintaining complete control on data access and changes. Originally developed for UNICEF’s emergency program in eastern DRC, ActivityInfo is a service provided by BeDataDriven a company based in The Hague, Netherlands.