After five years of managing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts for a $10 million USAID-funded project awarded to the University of Utah, I suppose I’ve learned a few things about how to do M&E well.
Year: 2020
Proxy indicators are absolutely useful and provide important information for decision-making and course corrections — but proxy indicators should never be conflated with the actual goal they are designed to measure.
Development aid interventions are designed to create change — but often the real development challenge is not creating change but sustaining it post-donor funding.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) transition towards sustainability when this transition is championed by campus visionaries — whether administrators, faculty, staff, and/or students. These visionaries not only see alternative, more sustainable, ways of doing things, they also help others to see and embrace those alternatives.