Evaluation Made Trendy: A View from the Ground

A friend recently sent me an article announcing the new field of impact evaluation for development. Five minutes later, another email pops up in my inbox: Evaluation is a top trend for 2013. Every week there are new magazine series, global conferences, books, and nonprofits devoted to measuring impact. Evaluation it is. As a Monitoring […]

Numbers, numbers, numbers

At our recent GHC Quarter 1 retreat, all current GHC fellows, alumni, and staff in Uganda got together for a panel discussion on Uganda’s health system. Mr. Obed Kabanda, the Executive Director of ACODEV, one of GHC’s partner organizations, gave an incredible speech on the status of the health system, how we are failing it, […]