Hinder:

- Disconnect of evaluator from Program Design

- Only measuring “ideal”, but long term outcomes

- End relationship at completion of project

- Discuss only one study (own research) and information overload

Help:

- Be willing to evaluate the replication of a program found to have succeeded in another context and well suited for this problem, not just “new and innovative” programs.

- Help train staff, establish M&E divisions, recruit technically competent people and motivate them by giving credence to their research and via formal linkages with leading academics.

- Work with other government agencies that are most receptive to evidence, even if not social development departments.

- Consider alternate evaluation design to accommodate political constraints and field realities without compromising rigor and objectivity.