Exploring complexity sciences in international development and humanitarian aid

"This blog is intended as a home to some musings about M&E, the challenges that I face as an evaluator and the work that I do in the field of M&E.Often times what I post here is in response to a particularly thought-provoking conversation or piece of reading."

If you have been reading my blogs and articles, you know I am an advocate of continuous monitoring (CM) and auditing (CA) – in particular when it is designed to provide assurance that business risks are managed and the related controls are operating effectively. While there is value in the detective, after-the-fact identification of defects in transactions, that is looking at the past. Providing assurance on the management of risks through effective controls has a forward-looking perspective. Controls provide comfort that today’s and tomorrow’s risks are managed and activities are and will be performed as intended.

J. Rogers and E. Jane Davidson have launched a blog called *Genuine Evaluation*, where they will share their ideas about real, genuine, authentic, practical evaluation – what it looks like, good examples, bad examples, lessons learned, tips, useful practices and methodologies.

Reflections on the monitoring and evaluation of development aid projects, programmes and policies, and development of organisation's capacity to do the same. This blog also functions as the Editorial section of the MandE NEWS website

Thoughts, ideas and resources for non-profit organizations and funders about the independent sector in general and program evaluation in particular.