Intrac updates: Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation

INTRAC's latest newsletter ONTRAC deals with 'Rethinking M&E' and included perspectives
on

• the logframe from Oman,
• storytelling M&E from CDRA in South Africa,
• how to combine qualitative and quantitative M&E in QUIP
• Monitoring and Learning and
• Brian Pratt on the increasingly sharp polarisation within civil society M&E.

Click on the link to download the newsletter as a pdf.

The newsletter coincides with the publication of their new book 'Rethinking M&E: Challenges and Prospects in the Changing Global Aid Environment' - we hope to have a copy in the BRC Library soon.

The book 'incorporates the good examples and innovative M&E solutions of 120 development professionals from an enormous range of countries, circumstances and specialisms', '[e]mphasising Southern perspectives and covering a rich variety of experiences, it stresses the important role of M&E in challenging many of our assumptions about poverty alleviation.'

Read more about the book in the longer post:

‘Rethinking M&E’ both analyses practitioner issues and situates them within wider aid trends. It takes as its premise the observation that official development aid is shifting towards an increasingly technocratic, managerial, state-centred approach. It follows that M&E within the aid chain worldwide is directed away from its focus on qualitative outcomes and long-term poverty alleviation impacts. Within this context, ‘Rethinking M&E’ provides innovative insights into such areas as M&E of NGOs as donors, the M&E of advocacy and the M&E of humanitarian emergencies.

Wherever you find yourself in the world of development M&E, this book will present useful experiences from others in similar situations. It shows that there is momentum and energy going into making M&E work for learning, empowerment and poverty eradication.'