Rethinking M&E. What is it to you?

core concepts Sep 01, 2021

What comes to mind when you think about monitoring and evaluation (M&E)?

If you’re like most people, the first things that pop up are complicated indicators, numbers, charts, spreadsheets, logframes of all types, more indicators, more numbers…am I right?

On a more emotional level, to some members of a project implementation team (especially those who consider M&E responsibilities to belong only to those with ‘M&E’ in their job title), M&E can seem like a particularly mean auditor. Their perception of M&E is a never-ending series of demands for data, an endless checks and controls on what’s happening in implementation, and a revolving door of evaluators and survey implementers. I’ve even worked on projects where colleagues felt that M&E got in the way of implementation. … [read the rest of the article on LinkedIn Pulse here]

(Citation: Shejavali, K. (2021, March 12). Rethinking M&E. What is it to you? LinkedIn Pulse. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rethinking-me-what-you-kandi-shejavali?trk=portfolio_article-card_title)

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