Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) - Monival™

Sibasi's Monival™ is a powerful M&E solution that helps organizations measure and improve performance. Get actionable insights to drive better decision-making.

Overview

Monival™, developed by Sibasi, offers an advanced M&E solution that enhances organizational performance. Its features enable strategic decision-making, resource optimization, and project success demonstration.

Streamline your project management with Monival's Monitoring & Evaluation software. Efficiently track project progress, assess performance, and ensure successful outcomes through an intuitive platform.

Utilize Monival's user-friendly tools to gain actionable insights from data analysis and reporting. Measure outcomes, identify improvement areas, and make informed decisions to maximize project impact effectively.

Monival™ provides one suite for Monitoring and Evaluation, designed to enhance organizational performance. Track KPIs, analyze data, and generate insightful reports to support decision-making and resource allocation.

Ensure transparency and accountability with Monival™ by leveraging real-time data and industry-standard compliance features. Empower stakeholders with the insights needed to achieve program goals and optimize resources.

Choose Monival™ for a reliable and efficient M&E solution that drives organizational success, offering powerful tools for data collection, analysis, and reporting to meet your specific needs.

Monival pricing

Start free with a pilot. Pay when the programme grows, not before.

Community

Free for pilots and small M&E teams.

Free

  • Up to 3 forms
  • 100 submissions a month
  • 5 enumerators
  • Offline mobile app
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Best fit for most organizations

Professional

For growing programmes and research teams.

$3,600

per year

about $300 a month, billed annually

Non-profit and academic: $2,500 a year

  • Unlimited forms and enumerators
  • 10,000 submissions a month
  • Offline mobile app
  • 360 degree evaluation engine
  • Power BI and OData feed
  • Webhooks and API access
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Premium

For large or multi-country programmes that need service levels.

From $12,000

per year

about $1,000 a month, billed annually

  • Everything in Professional
  • Custom submission limits
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • SLA and priority support
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  • Grants plan: Professional plus the grants and donor-reporting module (from $2,400 a year), so from $6,000 a year. Early access: ask for the waitlist.
  • Billed annually. Monthly billing, where offered, costs 20% more.
  • Non-profit and academic organizations get 30% off subscriptions after a quick verification.
  • Prices exclude VAT (16% in Kenya) and withholding tax.
  • Prices are in US dollars. Visitors in Africa see their local currency for information only: the amounts include a margin for exchange-rate movement and payment costs, and your quote confirms the final amount and the currency you are invoiced in.

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What is monitoring and evaluation software?

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) software tracks whether a programme is delivering what it committed to deliver. It holds the results framework, goals, outcomes, outputs and their indicators, collects data against those indicators from the field, and reports progress against targets to management, funders and government partners.

The distinction from a general reporting tool is the framework. M&E data is only meaningful in relation to a logframe or theory of change: an indicator has a baseline, a target, a frequency, a disaggregation and a means of verification. Software that treats indicators as rows in a spreadsheet loses the structure that makes the numbers interpretable.

For development organizations the practical driver is usually donor reporting. Programme teams collect data in the field, often on paper or in Excel, and a small M&E team spends the fortnight before each reporting deadline consolidating it, chasing gaps and reconciling figures that do not agree between sources. The reporting deadline is fixed; the quality of what gets submitted is what varies.

Key features to look for in monitoring and evaluation software

Written for programme and M&E leads evaluating options. The field data collection items matter more than buyers expect, because that is where data quality is won or lost.

1

A results framework you can actually model

Goals, outcomes, outputs and activities with indicators attached at the right level, supporting multiple frameworks where you run several programmes for different funders against different logframes.

2

Indicators with baselines, targets and disaggregation

Each indicator carrying its baseline, target, unit, frequency and required disaggregation, by sex, age, location, vulnerability, because disaggregated reporting is where most donor requirements bite.

3

Mobile data collection that works offline

Field teams collect in places with no connectivity. Data captured on a phone or tablet, queued, and synchronized when a signal returns is the difference between current data and data that arrives a month late.

4

Validation at the point of capture

Range checks, mandatory fields and logical consistency applied when data is entered, not discovered during consolidation. Correcting an implausible figure is far easier while the enumerator is still in the village.

5

Automated aggregation up the framework

Activity-level data rolling up to output and outcome indicators without manual consolidation. This is where the reporting fortnight is recovered.

6

Donor-shaped reporting

Different funders want different formats, periods and indicator sets from the same underlying data. Reporting should be configurable per funder rather than requiring a parallel dataset for each.

7

Evidence attached to results

Means of verification: attendance registers, photographs, survey instruments, receipts, attached to the reported figure, so a verification visit or audit can trace a number to its source.

Frequently asked questions about monitoring and evaluation software

How much does M&E software cost?

Monival starts free: the Community plan covers pilots and small teams. Professional is USD 3,600 per year with unlimited forms and enumerators, 10,000 submissions a month, offline mobile collection, a 360 degree evaluation engine and a Power BI feed. Premium starts from USD 12,000 per year for multi-programme, multi-donor organizations that need service levels and custom limits, with custom pricing where a consortium or government-scale deployment is involved. Annual licensing rather than per-user pricing suits programmes whose field team size fluctuates with funding cycles. Organizations running grant rounds can add the grants and donor-reporting module from USD 2,400 a year, so the Grants plan starts from USD 6,000 a year (early access). Non-profits receive 30% off.

Can it handle several donors with different reporting requirements?

Yes, and for most organizations this is the main reason to buy. The same underlying activity data is mapped to more than one results framework, so a single intervention can report into a government indicator, a donor logframe and your own organizational strategy without being counted three times or entered three times. Where funders require different periods or formats, those are configured per funder against the same data.

Does it work where field teams have no internet?

Yes, and this is a design assumption rather than an add-on. Data is collected offline on a mobile device, validated at the point of capture, held locally and synchronized when connectivity returns. Enumerators working in areas with no coverage can complete a full day of collection and sync in the evening from the nearest town.

How does it improve data quality rather than just speed?

Three ways, in rough order of impact. Validation at capture stops implausible values entering at all. A single source removes the reconciliation step where figures from different spreadsheets are quietly adjusted to agree. And attaching means of verification to each reported figure makes the number traceable, which changes behavior, data that can be checked tends to be entered more carefully than data that cannot.

Who uses M&E software?

NGOs and international development organizations reporting to institutional donors are the largest group. Beyond them, government ministries and county departments tracking sector performance, foundations monitoring grantees, research programmes with structured indicator sets, and corporates reporting on sustainability or shared-value commitments. The common requirement is a defined results framework that somebody external will scrutinize.

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