Only one of the Washington D.C. aid industry events I attended yesterday got us closer to fixing the problems that continue to plague and perplex us.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘monitoring’
December 7th, 2011 - 10:01 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
Accountability in all the wrong places
When we reduce accountability to abstract concepts or empty exercises that are, if we are honest, ultimately about reporting funding expenditures to donors, we miss the point. [...]
December 3rd, 2011 - 12:05 pm § in Guest Bloggers
Transparency. Accountability. Impact.
These buzzwords are everywhere these days, but what do they really mean? Kimberly Lemme, Sr. Manager, Program Finance & Compliance at Water for People, shares how her organization re-defines and approaches these concepts.[...]
October 24th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
Real Impact with Saeed Wame
Sharing my conversation with Saaed Wame, founder and director of local organization NACC in Malawi, on valuing community contributions, the challenges of child protection, and how numbers cannot portray the true value of his organization’s work.[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 8:20 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
How would you measure the strength of a partnership?
Ruiari Nolan of Peace Direct offers the following guest post, sharing their experience of trying to determine what is important in relationships with grassroots organisations, and how they’re trying to measure performance in this area. [...]
October 16th, 2011 - 12:50 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
#111: Milestones and Mountains Left to Climb
How-matters.org’s 111th post! Celebrating some results of the past year and sharing next steps![...]
September 26th, 2011 - 10:30 am § in Good Practice
Oral Reporting with Grassroots Organizations—Here’s How!
Oral reporting is a way to decrease the reporting burden on local, grassroots organizations, while enabling grantees to “paint a fuller picture” of their work, accomplishments and challenges than the written word can often offer.[...]
April 4th, 2011 - 2:25 pm § in Guest Bloggers
Welcome new GAVI CEO! You’ve got quite a task ahead!
A new charismatic CEO for GAVI: Can he see through spin at global health cocktail parties? Get dirt under his fingernails to discover the real customers? Negotiate with pharma for lower prices? Get non-Gates donors to open their wallets? And all at the same time?[...]
November 17th, 2010 - 10:07 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
161 Indicators, and then what?
1 country, 7 districts, 7 INGOs, $5 million and…161 indicators. Let’s aim for proportional expectations so we ensure monitoring and evaluation is a tool for learning and improvement, not just policing.[...]
July 9th, 2010 - 4:11 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
The Conundrum of Counting Beneficiaries
The bottom line question for many people working internationally is seemingly simple—How many people were reached? This question often becomes a huge drain on financial and human resources, especially for under-resourced local organizations.[...]
