RTI’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Community of Practice is proud to launch a free course geared towards the international development community. The course is designed for individuals of all practices (monitoring and evaluation, project management, business development, policy planning) and is intended to provide a foundation for MERLA basics. The five modules cover topics including fundamentals of program design, developing a project logic model (e.g. Theory of Change, Results Framework, etc), designing performance indicators, developing data collection instruments, and much more! No certificate is provided. The course is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA.