Incentives, Paradigms & Posho!

  We were on Day 5 of discussing and designing a participatory M&E system…with lots of positive feedback on this “new way of doing things”. Many individuals had come up to us, or said in plenary how excited they were to be involved in designing a system where the information would help the farmer, the researcher, [...]

Theories of Change & MandE

Since my post on “Logic beyond the Logical framework“, we’ve now almost finished consolidating the work of the 4 different groups and putting it altogether into one MandE matrix.
The first step was bringing together the theories of change as viewed by the different stakeholder groups into one Programme theory. This is what it looked like (different colors represent changes related to [...]

Timeline to describe existing information sharing avenues and design mechanism of critical reflection

Project inspection teams while conducting their review missions, almost always, ask whether projects have a monitoring and evaluation system. On the hand, I feel, they fail to give  equal attention to what happens to the information collected and stored through the monitoring and evaluation system .  
This was the background which motivated us to develop and [...]