Monitoring & Evaluation

Ntengwe for Community Development has evolved to strike a balance of mutual trust and accountability among our partners

Our extensive learning and evaluation systems have evolved to strike a balance of mutual trust and accountability, just like our partnership approach.

These changes include bringing in alliance building and support to strengthen our partners’ capacity into our grantmaking, as well as more intentional strategies to influence the philanthropic sector based on what partners are learning.

We monitor and evaluate all our programs, which is part of everyday program management and is critical to the success of our programs. It helps us to learn what does and doesn’t work concerning overcoming poverty and suffering and to adapt our programs in the light of our findings. 

This in turn, helps us to maximize the effectiveness of our interventions. The processes and products of monitoring and evaluation also help us to be accountable to our wide range of stakeholders by providing opportunities to  account for our decisions and actions and opportunities and to take account of the views and opinions of others. 

We facilitate participatory monitoring and evaluation on program design through to exit and reporting.  

Mobilizing the power of people to overcome poverty and injustice is at the heart of Ntengwe’s mission and vision. To realize this vision, we create space for people to speak out against injustice and the root causes of poverty.  

We work together with grassroots groups to protect and expand the space for all people, and especially for marginalized groups, to speak out, assemble and organize a plan on issues that matter to them, without fear of repercussions.

We use a number of tools to help monitor and evaluate the scope of community participation and to help analyze the progress, help determine the potential, establish goals, and to monitor the quality of community participation.