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Program Indicator Update — How We are Measuring the Effectiveness of our Interventions
Gabrielle Blocher
If you spend any time around these blog-parts (sounds gross), you have might been exposed to the fact that we have characterized our current set of operational programs that are up and running in Kenya three ways: We have two sustainability programs, and those are the Leadership Program and IGA R&D and M&E are support programs …Continue Reading
Looking for Help in Reviewing our Monitoring and Evaluation System
Gabrielle Blocher
We had a couple of questions from a donor this week about our third-party evaluations. We have done two of them officially. Here is a slightly edited version of how I put it to the donor: We have conducted two third-party evaluations, and the results of both can be obtained by emailing me at [email protected] …Continue Reading
Well, because we now actually have program indicators for all of the impact programs as well as leadership, the pressure is on. The Leadership program, which is a rather new program (comparatively) and shares the difficult attributes of being a slight challenge to explain and perhaps the most important program we have, brought up the …Continue Reading
I am in Palo Alto this week and last to meet with Jake and the rest of the Senior Leadership Team and to work with FT8, the newest group of folks who are heading to Kenya to work at the project site. This group consists of all new people, which is a first for us …Continue Reading
How is Ending Poverty Like Building an Airplane?
Gabrielle Blocher
I spent a couple of days this week creating a deck that draws upon a lot of the knowledge I gained from working at Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company from 2005 through 2008. During that time I was lucky enough to work with a few program management experts like Eric Kronenberg. I learned …Continue Reading
Program Metrics Teach Nuru about Job Specialization
Gabrielle Blocher
I mentioned a few weeks ago that we have gathered a lot of data related to many of our program metrics. The analysis and QC that we were conducting back then and have continued since have gone very well. At this point we have finished the first round of analysis and QCing for the baseline …Continue Reading
How Do You Design a Study when Everything Changes (Part 2)
Gabrielle Blocher
The M&E team had a pow-wow with the Education team last night. We discussed a couple of the issues I mentioned in my last post, and how we should most appropriately react to them. We have a couple of ideas, but none of them are set in stone. One simple thing we might do the next time we …Continue Reading
How do you Design a Study when Everything Changes? (Part 1)
Gabrielle Blocher
Last week I gave you a quick update on what we have been doing related to Program Metrics. I would like to brag about how we have been analyzing the data we have already gathered. David and Rogonga have been doing some hard-core analysis of all of the data we gathered for Healthcare and Watsan …Continue Reading
I wanted to give an update on our program metrics in this blog post as it has been a hot issue on our team lately. I had a call with one of our biggest donors this week about this topic, David is hard at work in the field on all sorts of Program Metric-related activities, …Continue Reading
Migration Monarch Butterflies and the MPAT
Jamie Frederick
Returning from Kenya in November last year, I’m back in the US working to provide insight and strategy on Monitoring & Evaluation systems in Kenya and soon to be Ethiopia. Living in sunny Santa Barbara, I have the luxury of being able to visit the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Preserve which is the overwintering site of …Continue Reading