Putting in Place the Necessary Capacities and Conditions
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Putting in Place the Necessary Capacities and Conditions
Putting in Place the Necessary Capacities and Conditions

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  • Building capacity for M&E involves external and on-the-job training not only for project staff but also implementing partners and primary stakeholders. Joint development of M&E is critical for capacity-building.
  • For people to do a good job, they need to be motivated. So the right incentives are critical and come in many shapes and forms.
  • Make the most of inputs of staff, partners, primary stakeholders and consultants by ensuring everyone is clear about her/his responsibilities. This helps you avoid gaps and duplicate or contradictory efforts.

  • Pay attention to where M&E functions and information flows fit in the project so that the insights gained can feed into timely decision making.
  • People can fulfil their M&E functions better with an appropriate and flexible information system that provides easy access for data entry, analysis and retrieval.
  • All of the above needs to be supported by thoughtful use of the existing budget.
  • In all M&E efforts, work towards creating learning processes that support local development. A decentralised learning process between stakeholders requires local capacity-building, with local resources and structures.

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