Monitoring and Evaluation Boost
Godfrey Senkaba shares career tips and good practice stories to help you master the monitoring and evaluation job and perform it to your best. In addition, I profile guests from the evaluation field to share their journeys to success.
Episodes
24 episodes
E24 - Beyond the Basics: How Understanding Global Trends Can Propel Your M&E Career Forward
In this podcast, Godfrey Senkaba explores key global issues that profoundly impact the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). These issues include technological advancements, climate change, conflict and fragility, and the ch...
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Season 8
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Episode 24
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29:48
E23 - Persuasion Tactics: Winning Stakeholders in Monitoring & Evaluation Data Challenges
Unlock the secrets to resolving conflicts over Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) data with expert persuasion tactics in the latest episode of the monitoring and evaluation boost podcast with Godfrey Senkaba! Learn the essential persuasion tac...
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Season 7
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Episode 23
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34:47
E22 - Gaining Stakeholder Support for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Activities
Gaining stakeholder support is key to implementing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities effectively. In this episode, Godfrey Senkaba, discusses the vital role of stakeholder analysis, utilizing a matrix tool to identify, understand, ...
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Season 7
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Episode 22
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27:07
E21 - Mastering M&E Training Workshops: 10 Tips to Plan Them Better
Mastering M&E training workshops requires thorough planning and consideration of various factors, including the facilitator, participants, logistics, and context. Godfrey Senkaba discusses the top 10 tips for you or your organization...
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Season 7
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Episode 21
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25:26
E20 - Exploring Sajilu Kamwendo's Evaluation Career: Curiosity, Patterns, and the "Made in Africa" Narratives
Godfrey Senkaba chats with Sajilu Kamwendo, the Director, Outcome, and Impact Evaluation at Mastercard Foundation. Sajilu has over 20 years of experience in program evaluation which includes work with international organizations, implementing o...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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45:40
E19 - From Evaluation Volunteer to Chief Executive Officer. The Katherine Haugh Evaluation Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba chats with Katherine Haugh, the CEO, and founder of The Convive Collective. Katherine has over 10 years of experience in program evaluation which includes work with both local and international development organizations...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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32:04
E18 - Professional Development of M&E Staff. 10 Factors Every Manager Should Know
Godfrey Senkaba discusses his personal strategy for supporting the professional development of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) employees. Based on his nearly 20 years of experience in the M&E field, Godfrey has developed the 3-10 Fr...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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28:49
E17 - Onboarding New M&E Staff: 10 Things to Do in the First 2 Weeks
Godfrey Senkaba discusses 10 must-dos for every hiring manager to successfully onboard new employees, particularly those who will perform monitoring and evaluation jobs. The tips are intended to improve the onboarding practices of hiring manage...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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23:03
E16 - Hiring M&E Staff. Top 10 Tips for Managers - Part 2
Godfrey Senkaba discusses the last five of the top ten tips every manager should know to hire the best monitoring and evaluation, staff. Whether you are a monitoring and evaluation manager or a generalist project manager, we often must deal wit...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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21:55
E15 - Hiring M&E Staff. Top 10 Tips for Managers - Part 1
Godfrey Senkaba discusses five of the top ten tips every manager should know in order to hire the best monitoring and evaluation staff. Whether you are a monitoring and evaluation manager or a generalist project manager, we often must deal with...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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20:21
E14 - Proposal Quality Review: 4 Key Issues and 15 Simple Tips You Must Know
Godfrey Senkaba discusses 4 key issues and over 15 Tips you must know to conduct a value-add quality review of a project proposal before submission to the funder. Whether you are internal staff or external consultants, taking a holistic ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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20:29
E13 - Proposal Development: 5 Things You Must Consider Before Development a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan
Godfrey Senkaba discusses the 5 most important issues a monitoring and evaluation specialist must consider before they develop the different monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) sections, and related annexes of a project proposal. A typic...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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22:18
E12 - 12 Ways to Review Donor Grants Solicitation Documents through the Lens of Monitoring and Evaluation
Godfrey Senkaba discusses the 12 important issues a monitoring and evaluation specialist must look out for when reviewing donor grant Requests for Applications (RFAs) or Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for emergency or development activi...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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27:27
E11 - The 7 Best Ways Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists Can Preposition for Grant Project Proposals
Godfrey Senkaba discusses the critical role for monitoring and evaluation specialists play in helping their organizations’ new business development or proposal development efforts. He outlines the 7 best tips as must-do’s for evaluation special...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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14:21
E10 - Leading A Cause Bigger Than Self: Mariana Branco’s Evaluation Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Mariana Branco, an Evaluation Specialist at the World Bank. Mariana discusses her professional life journey that is punctuated by service to others including causes that make evaluation simple, useable, and acce...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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36:43
E9 - From Art Museum Exhibitions to Leading Program Evaluations: Patricia M. Shaffer’s Inspiring Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Dr. Patricia Moore Shaffer, the former President of Washington Evaluators, and currently, Deputy Director of Research and Analysis for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC. Dr. Shaffer reveals what at...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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41:38
E8 - Practicing Assumptions-Aware Evaluation: Apollo M. Nkwake's Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Apollo Mukasa Nkwake, monitoring, evaluation, and research specialist, evaluation journal editor, and evaluation consultant. Our discussion focused on his evaluation journey from volunteering at a local nonprofit in c...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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32:43
E7 - Toward Evaluation - Led Civic Technology or Civic Tech: Tim Leisman's Promising Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Tim Leisman, a data-based community problem solver, and civic tech enthusiast. Only four years as an evaluator but has found interest in civic technology. But what is civic tech? how does it apply to evaluation? Throu...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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26:39
E6 - Volunteering with Evaluation Networks: How it Changed Me. Khalil Bitar's Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Khalil Bitar, Outgoing Chair, EvalYouth Global Network, Co-leader, Eval4Action. The premise of their conversation was Khalil’s transition from the leadership of the EvalYouth, a global network he helped to co-found. W...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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44:40
E5 - Keeping up With Trends: Holta Trandafili's Evaluation Career Path Story
Godfrey Senkaba spoke with Holta Trandafili, World Vision’s Research, Learning, and Analytics Manager. The premise of their conversation was Holta recently celebrated 20 years of work as an evaluator. We discussed everything! From h...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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33:39
E4 - My Monitoring and Evaluation Career Story: Creating Opportunities Where None Exists
Godfrey Senkaba – Shares his monitoring and evaluation career trajectory, spanning over 15 years. He specifically discusses what he has learned performing the evaluation job in different settings, for different organizations, and applying diffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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26:14
E3 - Monitoring and Evaluation Career Growth: 4 Practical Tips for Choosing Your Next Job
Godfrey Senkaba – discusses four important factors to consider when deciding if the next job will take you to a higher level in your monitoring and evaluation career. [00:34] Hello, everyone![01:02] Job Title! Sorry, consider...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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12:43
E2 - 5 Top Reasons for the Different Monitoring and Evaluation Jobs' Minimum Requirements
Godfrey Senkaba - discusses the top factors that inform the nature and type of minimum requirements for Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Jobs. These factors range from the organization, job, and profile of the position holder. If you are inter...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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11:54
E1 - Life Experience: The Best Training You Ever Needed to Begin a Monitoring and Evaluation Career
Godfrey Senkaba – discusses why having no formal experience should not limit your interest in a monitoring and evaluation career. He provides everyday life activities that provide the opportunity to build tacit knowledge and skills transferable...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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18:34