Gary Langer and Julie E. Phelan led a four-hour workshop on best practices in monitoring and evaluation of civic engagement programs in developing nations today at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington, D.C. Our presentation included first principles in monitoring and evaluation, experimental design including pre- and post-testing and the use of control/treatment groups, considerations in field administration, questionnaire design and statistical modeling techniques including construction of indices with alpha testing, linear regression including variable coding and analysis of covariates.