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About the webinar

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

The session provides 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 also learn about best practices for compliance and strategies for adapting to evolving privacy standards.

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

We 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 cover ethical responsibilities and data security measures that M&E specialists must consider to safeguard participant information.

In summary, we 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)

View the presentation slides of the Webinar.

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, watch our Webinar!

About the Presenter

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.