In December 2023, at the #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá, I attended a session on “Measurement is Political.” After the session, I started to think of how measurement has been politicized. All my professional life, I have always had a problem with the MEAL system (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning), and how we measure people in numbers. Using numbers to fit into donor agendas, expectations, log frames, and all kinds of other insensitive measurements. Throughout my career, I worked with several organizations, including the World Bank, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and various community organizations. In the early years of my...
In December 2023, at the #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá, I attended a session on “Measurement is Political.” After the session, I started to think of how measurement has been politicized. All my professional life, I have always had a...