Ten Common Monitoring and Evaluation Mistakes
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 13 February, 2013
- 23 Comments
As you may have noticed, monitoring and evaluation is a topic near to my heart. One thing I’ve noticed is that we repeat the same errors, over and over and … more Blood & Milk…
Snail’s Faith: on M&E and the pace of change
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 2 February, 2013
- 21 Comments
Things get better slowly. Achingly, painfully, snails-race-past slowly. They got better slowly in the US. As Chris Blattman recently pointed out, Andrew Jackson was a child soldier and genocidaire. … more Blood & Milk…
Field Notes from the Development Industry: 1/13/2013
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 13 January, 2013
- 1 Comment
1. Someone asked me if the new State Department Global Health Diplomacy office is likely to be hiring. Unfortunately, I’d guess no. All the major positions will most likely be … more Blood & Milk…
How I’m Judging You
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 24 October, 2009
- 14 Comments
These are my (arbitrary, personal, non-evidence-based) rules of thumb for identifying good development work: Bad signs Starting out by buying cars. Claiming to work in “Africa” without specifying a location. … more Blood & Milk…
Things I don’t believe in #3 – most kinds of evaluation (July 2008)
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 20 August, 2009
- 1 Comment
Note: August is looking like a crazy and stressful month for me, with no time to blog here. To make sure no one gets bored and abandons me, I am … more Blood & Milk…
Making Mistakes
- By Alanna Shaikh
- 12 May, 2009
- 8 Comments
(photo credit: Kim Scarborough) 1. In Tajikistan, where I currently live, and in Central Asia in general, married women wear scarves on their heads. So do unmarried women older … more Blood & Milk…
