Learning and Accountability: A Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant's Perspective. Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building: Is it really that difficult?

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dc.contributor.authorAdams, Jerry
dc.contributor.authorSimister, Nigel
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-15T06:40:58Z
dc.date.available2025-04-15T06:40:58Z
dc.date.issued2007-03
dc.descriptionMonitoring & Evaluation (M&E) can support effective organizational learning in NGOs, but often falls short due to overemphasis on tangible indicators and unengaging reports. To move beyond surface-level accountability, holistic methods like Most Significant Change help capture real qualitative impact. Effective M&E requires clarity of purpose—distinguishing between learning and donor accountability—and a thoughtful approach to measuring capacity-building outcomes. A mix of forward and backward analysis, appropriate tools, and participatory processes can make M&E more realistic, insightful, and transformative.
dc.description.abstractWith so much discussion about learning in the NGO sector, it is increasingly important that as practitioners we have examples of realistic and achievable approaches. This Praxis Note reflects on some of the issues around organisational learning, with a specific focus on how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes can contribute to and support 'effective' organisational learning. This Note also explores learning and accountability, using the metaphor of a warring couple whose differing mandates make their relationship complex.
dc.identifier.citationAdams, Jerry, Simister, Nigel, Smith, Rachel. (2007). Learning and Accountability: A Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant's Perspective. Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building: Is it really that difficult. INTRAC.
dc.identifier.urihttp://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/396
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherINTRAC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPraxisNote; 32
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPraxis Paper; 23
dc.subjectQualitative assessment
dc.subjectEvaluation
dc.subjectAccountability vs. learning
dc.subjectMonitoring & Evaluation
dc.subjectHolistic evaluation
dc.subjectReflective practice
dc.titleLearning and Accountability: A Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant's Perspective. Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building: Is it really that difficult?
dc.typeTechnical Report
dc.typeWorking Paper

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