Three things you should not have to rebuild.
Every M&E officer reconstructs the same three artefacts at the start of every programme: a logframe, an indicator tracking table and a data quality checklist. Here they are, in Excel, with a worked example in each and no email wall — take them and use them whether or not you ever look at the software.
The templates
Logframe template
Four levels, seven columns, and a worked example from a real-shaped agriculture programme so the empty grid is not the first thing you meet. Free, no email wall, yours to modify.
Logframe — The blank grid: four levels, seven columns, rows to fill.
Example — The same grid completed for a smallholder resilience programme.
Guide — What each level and column means, and where people get stuck.
Indicator tracking table
Fifteen columns, in the order a reviewer reads them, with the two most-forgotten ones included: per cent of programme time elapsed, and the deviation narrative you owe for anything more than ten points off.
IPTT — The blank tracking table, fifteen columns, one row per indicator.
Example — Seven indicators from a smallholder programme, mid-implementation.
Guide — What each column is for, and the two that reviewers query most.
Data quality assessment checklist
Fifteen questions across the five dimensions, each paired with the specific document or record an assessor will ask to see. Use it as a self-assessment a quarter before the real one, when there is still time to fix what it finds.
Checklist — Fifteen questions, five dimensions, with an evidence column and a status column.
Dimensions — What each dimension means and what a weak answer looks like.
Guide — How to run a self-assessment, and what to do with the result.
Why there is no form in front of these
Because a form would defeat the point. These exist so that other organisations can link to them, and nobody links to a download gate. If one of them saves an M&E officer an afternoon and they never speak to us, that is the trade working as intended.
The templates are also an honest sample of the opinion behind the software: that a target without a date cannot be managed, that means of verification should be written before the target, and that per cent achieved is only half an answer until you say how much of the programme has already gone.
A note on where these came from
They are Karagem's templates, laid out to match what USAID, the EU, the World Bank and FCDO commonly ask for. They are not official documents published by any of those institutions, and nothing here should be submitted as though it were — always check your own award papers for the exact format your agreement requires.
Free to use, copy and modify, with or without attribution.