So, in a previous blog entry I talked about how important it was to understand the data flowing through your organisation and who is using data for what. I have also mentioned the link between M&E and business planning and developing new interventions and projects. However some people are still Read more…
In the 12 November issue of Third Sector, Debra uses a story about the trouble she had communicating with a friend, Aga, who was helping her clean her house in advance of a visit from her partners’ mother as an analogy for talking to government, when the government and the Read more…
A question I am often asked is “how do you know that what you are doing is having impact?” I am also asked “What does impact look like?” In truth, neither are easy questions to answer. Steve Cole’s recent guest blog on the Social Impact Analysts Association website does sum up Read more…
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!
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…