by Gordon Stone I recently worked with two project teams (representing several grain projects and a horticulture project) supporting them in gaining skills for developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Activity Plan. The aim was to give team members the personal skills and a common understanding at team level to manage this within their projects.
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Making monitoring and evaluation easy to implement at project level
Determining KASA
The term KASA comes from Bennett’s Hierarchy – a table that maps out inputs to outcomes for extension programs. It stands for Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills & Aspiration. These are the changes that are seen to need to happen in people’s heads before they are equipped to make targeted practice changes. We have found that people have had difficulty in thinking through the
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The two big ones – clear Objectives and defined Stakeholders
I recently attended a training workshop with a strong focus on MER. Participants were set the task to think strategically about the fit of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting into everyday work. My job was to provide an overview to ensure that they were focused on undertaking cost effective project work.
New QualDATA website
We’re pleased to announce our new website! We’ve kept it very clean and easy to navigate so you can easily find what you are looking for very quickly. We will be updating our news regularly with QualDATA happenings as well as the latest and greatest in MER developments.