Communication for Development (C4D) uses communication tools and techniques to facilitate community participation and engagement and foster transformative social change. C4D initiatives often relate to complex and interrelated cultural and contextual factors with the aim of bringing about social and behavioural changes.

There are many different methods and processes that can be used in monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The Rainbow Framework organizes these methods and processes in terms of the tasks that are often undertaken in M&E. The range of tasks are organised into seven color-coded clusters that aim to make it easy for you to find what you need: Manage, Define, Frame, Describe, Understand Causes, Synthesize, and Report & Support Use.   The Rainbow Framework can help you plan an M&E activity by prompting you to think about each of these tasks in turn and select a combination of methods and processes that cover all tasks involved. You might also choose an approach, which is a pre-packaged combination of methods.