Research ethics
Research ethics are essential to conducting any research, assessment or evaluation. While researching in the field, we will no doubt face...
Sustainable Development Goals: Is there anyone left behind?
The principle behind the SDGs is ‘No One Left Behind’. But are communities themselves being left behind? With regards to SDG and...
SDGs: are they the ends or the means?
Pyae Pyoe Maung asks whether the Sustainable Development Goals are a motivator for change, or whether they are just a tool for...
Why rich countries might have it wrong about wellbeing and human development
Pyae Phyo Maung argues that the aid industry often doesn't reflect different social values about wellbeing. If you are a rich man, who is...
Questioning skills in M&E
ေမးျမန္းျခင္းစြမ္းရည္ ႏွင္႔ M&E M&E နဲ႔သုေတသန နယ္ပယ္မွာ လိုအပ္တဲ႔အေရးပါတဲ႔ ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈတစ္ခုကေတာ့ အေမးအေျဖလုပ္မယ့္ သူေတြရဲ႕...
Language in Development
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ေတြစီမံကိန္းကို ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ဆန္းစစ္ရာမွာ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ရတတ္တဲ႔အခက္အခဲေတြထဲကတစ္ခုကို ေျပာျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အဲ့ဒါကေတာ့...
Learning’. A great buzzword, but are we really doing what we say?
The new focus on ‘learning’ in aid projects is a welcome one. But Pyae Phyo Maung argues that a real learning culture will not drop from...
Trainings! Workshops! Trainings!...Oh, hang on a minute
Training! Workshops! Trainings! …Oh, hang on a minute… Going to trainings can be useful. And you might even get to stay in a luxury...
Advocacy as more than just protest
How M&E can play an important role in strengthening advocacy work. In many democratic nations, civil society plays crucial roles in...
Sexual Health and Land rights: The challenge of complexity
Pyae Phyo Maung argues that stand-alone evaluations of programs can often miss the most important lessons. For a program working to...