Everyone in our organization understands the importance of data. We have intentionally built a system where every team member is involved in monitoring and evaluation. We don’t have an in-house specialist or a written M&E policy. Instead, each project manager is responsible for assessing the effect of their project on communities. Ultimately, the purpose of the data collection is to improve the project. Is this a perfect system? Even though it works for us now, we understand there is always room for improvement because data collection is only the tip of the iceberg with a lot of work underneath it. Occasionally,...

This blog originally appeared on the LinkedIn page of Graciela Hopstein.   The massive demonstrations that took place on 1 February 2025 in various cities in Argentina represent an authentic resistance movement against President Milei's speech at the Davos Forum. On that occasion, the Argentine leader not only fiercely attacked feminism and climate justice agendas, but went as far as stating that "gender ideology corrupts children", associating gender and sexual orientation diversity with pedophilia. In response to the hateful statements made by the Argentine president at the World Economic Forum, in the presence of government and business representatives from various countries, Argentinian movements...