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Nuru International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty in remote, rural areas. Learn all about our work in Kenya and Ethiopia here on our blog.
Thoughts from Kenya: M&E Guest Post by Mwita Babere
Jamie Frederick
It’s very sunny here in Kenya but we are still working hard and when I think of Nuru’s mission I work even harder. When I joined Nuru, I never thought I would be so emotionally committed to Nuru and “ending extreme poverty one community at a time”. This phrase takes my heart away, especially when …Continue Reading
M&E Update: Measuring in Kenya & Ethiopia
Jamie Frederick
2013 is a busy year for our Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team at Nuru International. We are launching an M&E component into Ethiopia and we’ll be collecting impact data for our Agriculture, CED, Healthcare and Education programs in Kenya. In Ethiopia, Kristin Lindell is one of our newest Fellows and has joined us to help …Continue Reading
This morning was a foggy morning here in Cincinnati, much like the one above. I didn’t take this picture, it’s from here. I also didn’t see this exact image as this shot was taken from Kentucky, but I did drive along the river to a board meeting this morning, so I got to see the …Continue Reading
Education Uwezo Literacy Assessment 2012
Heather Ozhogin
During the 2012 academic year, the Nuru Education Program conducted classroom outreach in nine primary schools in Isibania Division, Kuria West District, Kenya. Nuru’s Education Program aims to increase child literacy to the Standard 2 (class 2) level among rural public, primary school students through intensive student-centered teaching and literacy-focused interventions. Workshops were held for …Continue Reading
During my Blog-Writing Break, we Gathered a lot of Data!
Gabrielle Blocher
Well, it has been a while. My team and I were working on trying to develop a more solid perspective on what the purpose of writing these posts is, how frequently we should write them, and what the nature of them should be. I think we have come up with a few good ideas, but …Continue Reading
How to Talk about Monitoring and Evaluation
Gabrielle Blocher
We have gotten a few critiques on how we approach monitoring and evaluation lately from various resources. They are good critiques. I would categorize them two different ways: We have gone through a lot of iterations of our approach to M&E as well as our approach to our interventions themselves, such that at this point …Continue Reading
Measuring Income — Does it Test Poverty?
Gabrielle Blocher
I am waiting in the Dallas airport for the next leg of my cross-country journey to Palo Alto for our annual International Operations Conference. All of the Senior Program Managers (SPMs), myself, my team, Aerie (our Director of International Operations), and Jake (our CEO) will all be on the Stanford campus for a couple of …Continue Reading
What can We Do Better to Measure Impact (Part 2)
Gabrielle Blocher
To pick up from where Gaby left off on her last “to be continued” post, our M&E team was juggling the idea of using baseline data from three sublocations (that we collected in Nov. 2011) to represent a larger geographic region to which our healthcare program is soon scaling. We recently concluded that we will …Continue Reading
What Can We Do Better to Measure Impact?
Gabrielle Blocher
Well, in our last post you heard from Kelly Gannon, our newest M&E Fellow/Program Manager in the field. She has, of course, been doing a bang-up job so far. She has made the rare transition from a Stateside position to a field position. We have had plenty of people do the reverse – transition from …Continue Reading
What I (Kelly Gannon) have Learned this Month about Data Collection
Gabrielle Blocher
(This post is written by our M&E Fellow, Kelly Gannon, and posted by me, Gabrielle Blocher) I have spent much of this first month absorbing and observing as much as I can during our transition from FT7 to FT8. It’s been great to connect the work I was doing remotely from the US since February …Continue Reading