Of course there is no doubt that capacity is lacking across Africa and the world overall in M&E generally not just for Agricultural projects or programs. But it is partly because many of us do not want to learn on our own using the vast programmes on the internet. Just like Monitoring a lot of literature exists on evaluation, for example many of us should interest ourselves to the writings of Michael Quin Patton - the founder of Utilization-focused evaluation, you will be amazed, but also his debates on systems versus frameworks in measuring performance. And, finally, read literature from OECD/DAC and tweak it to your area of intervention.
However, for me it is important to contextualize the debate to provoke the need to document learning from the agriculture projects so as to address the knowledge gap and to be able to replicate the processed across the world.
RE: A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Of course there is no doubt that capacity is lacking across Africa and the world overall in M&E generally not just for Agricultural projects or programs. But it is partly because many of us do not want to learn on our own using the vast programmes on the internet. Just like Monitoring a lot of literature exists on evaluation, for example many of us should interest ourselves to the writings of Michael Quin Patton - the founder of Utilization-focused evaluation, you will be amazed, but also his debates on systems versus frameworks in measuring performance. And, finally, read literature from OECD/DAC and tweak it to your area of intervention.
However, for me it is important to contextualize the debate to provoke the need to document learning from the agriculture projects so as to address the knowledge gap and to be able to replicate the processed across the world.
Many thanks
Francis