After years working with children, caregivers, and young people across Northern Uganda through school visits, radio programmes, and national advocacy platforms one thing has become...
Development projects are often launched with the best of intentions: reduce poverty, create jobs, improve livelihoods, and unlock local economic potential. Yet history repeatedly s...
A few months ago, I sat with the director of a small CBO in Northern Uganda that was running a child nutrition program for over 200 families. When I asked how they tracked outcomes...
Imagine sitting in a monitoring meeting where the program officer reads out indicators, the facilitator nods along, and everyone agrees things are going well while the women who ac...
Imagine a GBV survivor sitting across from an enumerator, answering questions about what happened to her not because the program needed that level of detail, but because no one tho...
As a MEAL professional working in Northern Uganda and Kampala, I’ve designed and deployed dozens of KoboToolbox forms for programs in child protection, mental health, livelihoods, ...
In traditional Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems, we often begin with predefined indicators and attempt to demonstrate that specific changes were ...
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming is growing rapidly in Uganda, especially in post-conflict regions like the North. Organizations like Mouthpiece Initiativ...