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Three big M&E lessons

November 7, 2020December 29, 2020 Mercedes Ward

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.

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Institutional Development Monitoring and Evaluation

Don’t let metrics displace goals

October 20, 2020December 29, 2020 Mercedes Ward

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.

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I am an interdisciplinary social scientist (PhD, anthropology) and sustainable development practitioner. Read more.

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