Data collection and metadata are becoming more important to business decisions. It is an essential tool for preserving the organization's legacy, facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication as well as boosting the outreach of knowledge materials. Comprehensive metadata that contains all key information on research data can be reused for other purposes and over the longer term.

Back in 2018, WorldFish has implemented Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) platform. MEL is an all-in-one modular structure for planning, management, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. Integrated features cover budgets planning, risks’ assessment, impact pathways, knowledge sharing and more. The flexibility of the platform allows the implementers to re-shape it to meet specific needs, such as customizing impact pathways and results from frameworks used by CGIAR and donors. The platform also comes with MEL Space, an integrated Open Access repository.

Recognizing the importance of fostering capacity development in its employees, WorldFish has taken the initiative to organize a three-day Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Training from 26 to 28 August 2019 at the headquarters office, Penang, Malaysia. This interactive training course will emphasis on improving knowledge and skills of participants about project implementation with a specific focus on the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system and the MEL web-based platform as an entry point to mainstream a result-based management approach and an adaptive management style at the country level and within the organization.

The training will convene WorldFish Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Community of Practice (CoP) members, a voluntary community that brings together Monitoring Evaluation and Learning focal points and leaders, project leaders and specific specialists working for WorldFish and/or for relevant partners, with multidisciplinary backgrounds and interest in MEL and Research Data Management (RDM).