Monitoring and evaluation in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Twelve years in, the one question I keep returning to is this: when the field refuses to cooperate with the design, what evidence is still worth producing?

I grew up in Ghana. I work in English and French, mostly in places where neither is the first language on the ground. I read epidemiology at Queen Margaret University, and I have spent most of my career arguing in print, politely, that the most valuable evaluations are not the most methodologically sophisticated; they are the ones designed with enough pragmatism to survive first contact with the field.

I run half-marathons. The full marathon remains theoretically appealing. Most of what is on this page is the long version of that sentence about evidence and pragmatism, laid out as a working index, because that is the form I trust most.

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