Today, together with my M&E colleague Thando Nkomo we did something totally crazy! Our country director asked us to review our M&E practice and make a presentation to the whole SNV team. Instead of a power point presentation we chose to enact a court trial. We took one project manager by surprise by making them the accused and having her defend the M&E practice in her project. We selected our HR Officer to be the Judge, my colleague acted the prosecutor and myself as the defence attorney and the rest of the staff members became the jury. The prosecutor indicted the project for not having a rigorous M&E system right from having no good M&E framework, Poor resource planning, insufficient data collection, verification, storage and analysis to poor reporting. The manager had to defend everything even producing evidence of up-to-date databases, reports sent to donors and an evaluation plan and resources. The whole process took about 45 minutes and at the end of it she was exhausted and was found guilty! After, the trial several staff members came confessing that they now understand M&E better and they appreciated the method used as opposed to if we had done a power point presentation!
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