How do i start a career in monitoring and evaluation (M&E)?
Usually this is a question i get asked every time i meet a university graduate or someone that feel they want a change in career. I personally got to into the field through on job training. I attended a training on Leadership for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) organized by Partners in Population and Development in 2003 in Mukono, Uganda. In this training, monitoring and evaluation were introduced as concepts for good programming, and a key role they play. This served only as an awareness to know that something called M&E exists and i could easily tell everyone a difference between monitoring and evaluation. This was so easy because there was that table that was always shown during trainings about how the two differ. This raised my interest and decided to read more about M&E and that is how the door opened and my career started in the field. During that period, by just having a line in the CV that said M&E actually could get you an job to perform the rol