As the old adage goes, “What gets measured gets done”. It’s a management mainstay, focusing heavily on the importance of frequent measurement and reporting to help you tackle all your challenges. It’s the ideological basis of monitoring and evaluation, the first step towards building an evaluation culture.  Any organization can adapt an M&E system based on project types and goals. Evaluation culture takes it a step forward, by embedding evaluation and learning within organiza

In 2014, we had to work with a national non-profit working on improving health and hygiene among women in rural Uttar Pradesh. As a part of the project, tens of thousands of women were surveyed, and a sanitation plan was developed, and deployed. A year after the project, the sanitation plan was all but abandoned as there were no users, and local authorities did not find the resources to implement it at all.  Looking back on this, the main thing that strikes us is: why did it