You did an excellent job of bringing us all around to a shared understanding of M&E and a clear picture of what we need to do next. Comments from staff and in the management team meeting were all very positive.
Client feedback from an M&E workshop faciliated by INTRAC consultants

Design and assessment of monitoring and evaluation systems

A few examples of recent work around M&E:

  • A large INTRAC team helped design a new M&E system for an international charity working on access to safe water. The system has been developed in a fully participatory process led by the organisation, through workshops and training sessions across the globe. The INTRAC team held training workshops for the organisation’s staff in 16 countries, including Zambia, Burkino Faso, Malawi, India, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Nepal.
  • INTRAC is assisting a global NGO in the development of a monitoring and evaluation system for its anti-corruption programme in eight countries in Africa. The programme maps risk areas relating to budget allocation, disbursement and expenditure in areas of service delivery (water, education and health). The M&E system will include the monitoring of activities and the periodic assessment of outcomes. It is designed to facilitate cross programme learning.
  • INTRAC has been providing support to an alliance of animal welfare societies in the development of their new monitoring and evaluation system. We initially facilitated a workshop in 2008 to explore what system was in place and how different parts of the organisation engaged with it. This was followed by interviews with regional and country offices to get a better understanding of what M&E needs would be required for the future. The organisation’s staff then developed their M&E system, with periodic support from INTRAC. A series of two-day workshops facilitated by head office staff and INTRAC trainers in North America, Latin America, UK, Africa, Australia and Asia, will introduce basic M&E theory and the new system. Anne Garbutt, INTRAC Director, and Desmond Tutu
  • Anne Garbutt, Consultancy Director, is a member of the Tutu Foundation and British Council Learning and Evaluation Catalyst Group. The group has been convened to support the Foundation and Council to; improve their understanding of M&E processes, ensure all such processes are integrated into all aspects of the Foundation and Council’s programme planning cycles, and to help develop frameworks and tools that can be used to assess the impact of interventions and programmes targeted at a range of young people across the UK.