Chapter 11 Problems with monitoring and evaluation – Resistance and donor mandates
Overcoming resistance to monitoring and evaluation
The best organizations routinely plan, implement, evaluate, and learn from evaluation. That is certainly the reason they became the best organizations – and the biggest. Others fail to evaluate and fail to learn. Why? Reasons given range from “We already know what to do” to “We don’t have funding for it.” Those who don’t conduct ongoing, honest evaluations will pay a serious penalty – for themselves, their beneficiaries, and their donors. Almost without question, the nonprofit will stagnate and eventually be in crisis.
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