February 2015 – Robin Brady

Impact

Beneficiaries at the heart of it all

We don’t listen enough. That’s what I said last week. A way to ensure that we always keep the beneficiary voice included is to put them at the heart of the organisations set up to support them and to include them in designing, delivering, monitoring and evaluating activities. We have Read more…

By admin, 7 yearsFebruary 11, 2015 ago

Evaluation

We don’t always know better

Last week I mentioned that NGOs should do lots of regular beneficiary testing (or user testing) when developing their projects, activities, products, interventions, etc. I thought I’d expand a little on that idea. You see we’ve spent over 50 years “doing development” in the global south and in some places people Read more…

By admin, 7 yearsFebruary 4, 2015 ago