Interesting interview with Abt Associates President and CEO Kathleen Flanagan via How the worlds biggest donors tackle impact measurement – Exclusive interview: Kathleen Flanagan | Devex.
So we record how many people attended a workshop, we make sure each person completes a feedback form, we enter this information onto a spreadsheet or a database, we store the hard copies somewhere for a while (just in case). We click on ‘save’ and send the information to someone Read more…
Last time I spoke about the business planning process and M&E’s role in it. It is worth however spending a little more time looking at M&E and planning new interventions. More often than we would like to admit the results of projects and interventions are not taken into account when Read more…
Lighting the path of profitability for base-of-the-pyramid enterprises – Feature: Social enterprise | Devex. This is an interesting article that highlights the pressures on small social enterprises trying to make a difference on the ground. A useful read!
Many NGOs tell me that there is a disconnect between what they plan to do and what they end up doing. This affects their monitoring data and ultimately what they are able to report to donors. This disconnect seems to come from a number of different sources: poor communication, in-country Read more…
We talk about monitoring and evaluation together all the time. But how many of us have stopped to think about these two different activities and what they really mean. To some of you the difference may be obvious, but I have had a few requests to write about what is Read more…
Where should monitoring and evaluation sit in an NGO? This used to seem like a straightforward question with a straightforward answer: in its own team. But that solution views monitoring and evaluation as something separate from day-of-day project and planning activities and does not encourage a deep level of integration Read more…