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23 June, 2011 - From the 14th to the 16th of June 2011, over 170 participants from 41 countries gathered in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, for the international conference on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) that was convened by INTRAC, PSO and PRIA.
‘It is the season of accountability…but over the past few years, almost every organisation or project I have visited is stressed with issues of monitoring and evaluation, anxiously shopping around for methodologies to measure and report on impact to satisfy donors. Adverts for M&E specialists abound as donors seek to further outsource this function to experts, robbing organisations of rich learning processes to which M&E should contribute.’ Reeler, 2007.
PTG3 in Utrecht (Plompetoren Gracht 3)
- Get more insight in the 5C approach and how this
approach can be operationalized into your own practices. - Exchange existing tools and ideas that are currently being consid
Within the framework of the Development Policy Review Network (DPRN), HIVA Research Institute for Labour and Society of the Catholic University Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB) and Vredeseilanden/VECO jointly explored the relevance of various PME approaches such as Outcome Mapping, the Logical F
10 november 2010 - ‘The emperor has no clothes’. That’s how 
Nigel Simister from INTRAC described his perception of current PM&E practice during his keynote presentation at the DPRN seminar, co-organised by PSO. Simister referred to the fact that generally we still struggle with PM&E in our development programmes and it is high time to do something about it.
Theatre Concordia, Hoge Zand 42 - 2512 EM, The Hague
Read the invitation
The HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB) and Vredeseilanden/VECO invite you to a
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IOB) and seven Dutch NGO's are in the process of evaluating capacity development. The aim of this evaluation is to gain a better understanding of how and under what circumstances capacity development support can be effective. And also what new insights can be gained from the recent capacity development programmes.
Learning events
In the framework of the meetings PSO facilitated in 2009 pertaining to qualitative methods for PM&E, two sessions took place on 29 September and 1 October 2009 concerning the ‘Most Significant Change’ (MSC) technique.
'I was touched by the stories of other organisations’ experiences with Most Significant Change which I heard during the ‘Pit stop’ meeting,' says participant Deidre Casella (IRC).
