Being responsible for M&E at a meta organisation myself, we’re doing exactly what you wrote: We report the impact we know about. We have a clear internal tracking system. But over the years there have been many instances where we heard about something and said: “Wait a minute, this is huuuge! Why didn’t we know about this until now?” And then we reached out to the respective people and tried to better estimate our counterfactual contribution.
There may be better ways to do M&E than we do. But it’s hard and proactivity from recipients makes our life much easier.
Strongly upvoted!
Being responsible for M&E at a meta organisation myself, we’re doing exactly what you wrote: We report the impact we know about. We have a clear internal tracking system. But over the years there have been many instances where we heard about something and said: “Wait a minute, this is huuuge! Why didn’t we know about this until now?” And then we reached out to the respective people and tried to better estimate our counterfactual contribution.
There may be better ways to do M&E than we do. But it’s hard and proactivity from recipients makes our life much easier.
Wow thanks this give a reflection about many projects that seemed not progressive yet its the reporting that was not progressive.