The Limits of Efficient M&E
I’ve spent years harking on about the need to ensure that development projects are designing indicators that are collecting the most necessary data as opposed to interesting data. My mantra, drilled into the heads of many colleagues over the years, has been ‘what do you need to know to know if you are making progress’. Big on SMART indicators, and keeping the process as efficient as possible (know that monitoring is the least favourite activity of a majority of development practitioners) – it’s what I did.