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    The ideal monitoring & evaluation specialist: A character sketch

    <p>Which skills should an international development monitoring &amp; evaluation specialist possess? Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women vice-president for research innovation and impact, explains.</p>

    By Jemila Abdulai // 24 May 2010

    Gone are the days when it was okay to dish out huge sums of money in the name of doing good. Today, international donors expect results, and they expect aid recipients to be accountable.

    That’s where monitoring and evaluation experts, and their impact assessments, come in.

    While there’s a heightened awareness of the need to showcase results, there’s also the danger of measuring for the sake of measuring, says Anju Malhotra.

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