Improving Development Evaluation

Join Dr. David Wand as he takes you on a provocative, investigative journey challenging Canadian & American international development organizations as well as international organizations to improve their performance measurement frameworks (PMFs) or Activity Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL) Plans. In Season 1, part 1 of the episode, Dr. Wand will introduce you to an international development organization and one of its projects where flaws in their PMF will be identified. In part 2 of the episode, the international development organization and evaluation experts will be invited to discuss Dr. Wand's critique and offer solutions to improving the evaluation of the project.

For Season 2, Dr. Wand expands the scope of his podcast to include USA government funded international development projects by acquiring Activity Monitoring Evaluation Learning Plans (MEL Plans) or their equivalent as well as continue acquiring Canada government funded international development projects that require PMFs or their equivalent. For Season 2 the focus of the podcast has also been improved whereby several projects from the same international development organization are covered in the same episode exposing how the international development organization fails to properly measure and evaluate whether its expected outcomes have been achieved. This is despite these organizations falsely claiming on their websites that they have achieved these outcomes at the expense of the taxpayer.