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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: Not everything that counts can be counted

April 21, 2023

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Have you ever wondered what participants really do with what they learn during your training? You might know how many participants you have trained, but how do you know if they apply what they have learned in practice? Many development projects struggle to look beyond the numbers of products and services they deliver and understand what happens after.A famous saying, often wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein goes as follows: “not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”. In reality it is a saying written by William Bruce Cameron in 1963.

The point is that sometimes the change you are looking for is not easily captured by traditional monitoring methods that involve numbers and percentages. In this webinar we explored the concept of qualitative monitoring as a way to capture these changes.