Monitoring, Operations Research and Evaluation for Adaptive Programmes (MORE-AP)

This Nigerian proverb  is an excellent explanation that to achieve desired process, you need to factor in the dosage. I was made to believe that Dosage = dose x time +/- other factors. But treatment outcomes may not appear because the dose has been completed. There are other factors that must come into play such as underlying conditions, nutrition,  etcetera.      Back to the case of the famer and the goat.  The assessment showed that fat goats could easily be sold or sold at a better price because it was what everyone wants to buy. Also the assessment by the famer showed that the goat was not fat. This is what needs assessment and context analysis does. It clears the ground for expected results to be clarified and a plan to achieve them developed.   we will assuming the farmer knows  what makes a goat fat, the goat likes it and actually eats enough, ......  However, being already a market day, the farmer was faced with a dilemma of  getting a lowest price or not selling at all. But al

The truth is that you need certification, to prove that you have been thoroughly tested and proved to have understanding of what monitoring and evaluation is.  However, employers when recruiting for M&E positions, they are looking for skills, not certification.  invest much time in acquiring skills as you would in acquiring certification.  A quick look at various job adverts, they always appear to look for individuals that can: develop and implement an M&E or MEAL strategy and/or implementation plan; advise on evaluation approaches and methods relevant to a program context; conduct statistical  analysis or has basic understanding of data analysis- usually requires basic skills in  SPSS, R, SAS, or Stata; design  and manage studies and researches -  knowing how to use K obo Toolbox, Qualtrics, CommCare, CSPro or any others surveying software; convincingly present technical information to non technical audience - because M&E is aimed at informing decision making and not all d

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