Interesting contribution Grace: M&L as part of implementation, and E&R (not sure why R ...) later in time by different teams. Makes sense.
From my experience (and I come from the public sector, national and international public sector) it is already assumed that in any project you need to carry on what you called the M&L work, but it is difficult to include in a meaningful way E&R in a way to make a real contribution to (i) the project stakeholders, (ii) the implementing organization, and (iii) the funding organization. I found there is a large opportunity to improve on this (M&E: timing, contribution to who).
RE: A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Interesting contribution Grace: M&L as part of implementation, and E&R (not sure why R ...) later in time by different teams. Makes sense.
From my experience (and I come from the public sector, national and international public sector) it is already assumed that in any project you need to carry on what you called the M&L work, but it is difficult to include in a meaningful way E&R in a way to make a real contribution to (i) the project stakeholders, (ii) the implementing organization, and (iii) the funding organization. I found there is a large opportunity to improve on this (M&E: timing, contribution to who).
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