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If the M&E team is incompetent, there is a high probability for their service to be ineffective, inefficient, useless, and damaging.

The principle of competence states that you should only use tools or processes when you are confident that you have the skills to use them competently.

You can continually improve your M&E skills and your team’s confidence by investing in learning.

You just have to keep learning for better performance

The competent principle also demands that you should decline to run M&E processes that you are not equipped to do well

Do not pretend to know it all. Learn to accept your limitations. Learn more to improve

Competent people are always confident about what they do.

Competence is very important in the Era of technology requirements and the mentality of humans is changing in the context of modernity.

The most crucial part of M&E without which no work will be accomplished

I strongly agreed to this principle 'Competence'. there will be inaccurate data collection when a personnel is not skilled technically or culturally. hence there is need for continuous improvement of skills

this is nice and i get to know that when you can not manage a certain M&E process you can decline it or discuss your limitations in this way mistakes are avoided and chances of learning new ideas and processes are high

The key fundamentals issues with regards to competence are well articulated and explained for deeper understanding.

SO GOOD POSSESSING BOTH TECHNICAL AND CULTURAL SKILLS FOR M&E PROCESSES. AND IT WILL BECOME CUMBERSOME PROJECT TO THOSE INITIATING PROJECT WITH NO TECNICAL AND CULTURAL SKILLS, FOR INSTANCE, IT WILL NOT BE GOOD WHEN CONDUCTING THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY WHEN THERE IS A NEED OF EPIDEMIOLOGICA DATA WHICH IS A MAP FOR LOCATING WELL WHERE THERE IS HIGH OR LOW INCIDENCE RATE FOR A CERTAIN INFECTION FOR CERTAIN AREA OR REGION WHILE IN THE TEAM CONDUCTING THE WORK NO ONE OF IT IS ABLE TO USE WHAT IS CALLED GPS AS TOOL. FOR THIS POINT THE THECHNICAL SKILLS ARE SO IMPORTANT.

Competence, technical & cultural skills, is paramount in M&E. Any new M&E process can be adopted if only equipped with adequate skills. In M&E, continuously learning to grow professionally should be systematic.

I would ensure that team carry out M&E processes with the required technical or cultural skills by choosing a team that has at least one person who would be able to speak different languages, who can use the digital tools that may be required and if it's not possible i would be very clear with all stakeholders about the limitations of my data collection process. I would continue to upgrade my team gaining knowledge about the M&E process by taking courses that covers our line of work.

I have learnt M&E is an area of practice that requires continuous learning, you will only become competent if you are willing to invest time to learn and be patient with yourself. Personally, i want to hone my skills bit by bit until i get to run successful M&E processes with ease and high professionalism. M&E is a marathon, not a splint so patience and being inquisitive is a key requirements.

This is very important because we get to learn new ways of doing M&E especially now with the increased use of technology

I fully agree to upskilling one self to be able to be competent, at some point I was not comfortable to do some duties as I lacked knowledge and information. I am sure that doing this course will also add more information and assist me to do better and be confident.

When the principle of competence is not applied in an M&E activity, everything is bound to go wrong. This is because the success of the program is largely dependent on the personnel. If the personnel lacks the necessary data collection skills which brings into cognisance the cultural consideration, as well as the analytical skills, then the campaign is already a failed one. This module has really openedy eyes.

Competence is very critical. The quality of M&E work largely depends on the competence of the team, from tools designers to field data collectors, data processors, analyzers and presenters.

Competency is one this that is required in M&E, this is a skill required sector since it involves several areas that require focus and decision making. So having a staff that is competent and can able understand what is doing is very essential for a good product of work.

I have learnt so many quality things from the curse already for example the cultural and technical skill set needed by M&E workers

The competence practices with data collection planning and resource management, involves the following: defining the problem that needs to be solved; identifying data sources, and creating a data collection plan and setting goals; and developing a plan for curating and managing collected data

Do not rush to implement or use a system that you are not aware of. Always reflect or analyze your experience and technical knowledge before starting to use a new process. Every organization must adopt a system if they fully understand and has experience using it, you need to have experts of that system who has both cultural and technical understanding of the system, declining to use systems which you are not familiar with, to be ambitious is good but avoid being overambitious tell the truth if you don't have the knowledge of the new system.

ensure that you are competence, understand the M&E activity at hand and be able to interpret correctly the data collection tool and capture correctly on the system

also understanding the participants or your target group i.e, for Adolescent girls and young women programme that focuses on ages 15-24 they are using Basic mobile phones? Feature phones? Smart phone Computers?
even Email? SMS? use these as data collection and data gathering tools since they are most familiar with technology, they will be bored with paper based tools

Use tools and processes that you are confident in and that your team has the necessary technical and cultutal skills to use

Use tools and processes that you are confident in and that your team has the necessary technical and cultutal skills to use

Competence is key. working with a competent team saves time, resources and produces quality results. it is important to always upgrade ourselves to equip ourselves with multiple skills in data collection and management.

I think the organization should ensure that the M&E team is continually competent by availing refresher trainings on latest techniques for instance latest Data collection, management software.

In M&E, learning never stops and this also contributes to competence. However, it would be good to do annual competency checks for the team at the start of each financial year. I have seen this work for a particular team I was a part of.

It is refreshing to see that the value of competence also focuses on cultural competency, often times when working with local groups interventions including M & E are oblivious to community norms. Therefore, a suggestions will be to do proper research and work with community participants instead for opting for spontaneous M & E

Monitoring and Evaluation team should continually study to sharpen skills. Hiring a qualified team or a eager to learn team is very important because this promotes competence.

Provide skilled professional services.
Be honest when you are not aware of anything.
Be welling to grow, by acquiring relevant skills.

Provide skilled professional services.
Be honest when you are not aware of anything.
Be welling to grow, by acquiring relevant skills.

Provide skilled professional services.
Be honest when you are not aware of anything.
Be welling to grow, by acquiring relevant skills.

this module teaches me that sometimes you have to say no to your limits

Provide skilled professional services.
Be honest when you are not aware of anything.
Be welling to grow, by acquiring relevant skills.

Competence determine how successful a project will be. The need to ensure that your team is competent enough can not be overemphasized

To a competence person, one should take their learning very seriously , so this is the reason why I'm taking this course very important.

True, competence is needed as a set of skills to consider as a field Volunteer in the Humanitarian sector.
Even if you very carefully study your target audience, there will most likely be issues that you do not anticipate. Here are a few examples:

Researchers of nomadic or transitory populations have had to abandon questions about “address” or “place of residence.”
Researchers in the Caribbean planned on collecting names and dates of birth to identify individuals. However, they found that many individuals did not know their exact date of birth and, due to low literacy levels, did not always spell their names the same way. So, they decided to add a question to help identify individuals: what is the name of your mother?
Social pressure or politeness can lead different groups of people to report incorrect data to common questions.

True, competence is needed as a set of skills to consider as a field Volunteer in the Humanitarian sector.
Even if you very carefully study your target audience, there will most likely be issues that you do not anticipate. Here are a few examples:

Researchers of nomadic or transitory populations have had to abandon questions about “address” or “place of residence.”
Researchers in the Caribbean planned on collecting names and dates of birth to identify individuals. However, they found that many individuals did not know their exact date of birth and, due to low literacy levels, did not always spell their names the same way. So, they decided to add a question to help identify individuals: what is the name of your mother?
Social pressure or politeness can lead different groups of people to report incorrect data to common questions.

Competence in engaging in an M&E process takes willingness to learn and time to practice. The openness to learn is an essential aspect of becoming competent in the M&E process because it is an attitude important to understanding the concepts and being accommodating to different varieties of skills and methods to apply concepts. Apparently, the learning of concepts and its relevance to the M&E process would be difficult to visualise unless applied. Having the time to practice or apply the skills to practical situations, enhances the learning and competence to employ an M&E process. All in all, a willingness to gain knowledge and put this into practice are necessary to be competent in doing M&E.

without competence, we can do anything in monitoring and evaluation

yes, that' s true

To be competent you need skills, without necessary skills to do something, it is better to avoid it.

Lack of competence can lead to data entry errors hence the need for improved learning.

Competence and timely are very importance for the M&E system

Besides of the technical skills, the cultural skills are very important for M&E, especially the data collection in specific areas with sensitive cultures. Therefore, the data collection tools have to be designed well ass well as the data collectors' confident cultural skills in order to ensure we receive accurate data.

Besides of the technical skills, the cultural skills are very important for M&E, especially the data collection in specific areas with sensitive cultures. Therefore, the data collection tools have to be designed well ass well as the data collectors' confident cultural skills in order to ensure we receive accurate data.

Competence is ensuring the capability of M and E personel in collecting honestly data and do no harm in the processprocess, by ensuring that they have all the knowledge and technically capability to collect accurate data

In this very fast chaining times, it is important to always update your skills. Today's up-to-date skills may be obsolete by dawn of tomorrow.

To be competent you need skills, without necessary skills to do something, it is better to avoid it.

I do agree that we need to understand very well how to use technical skills before implementing them; however, I do consider that it is important to try. Maybe, a good way to do so, is with a pilot/practice exercise to implement it. I do consider that cultural skills could be even more tricky, and it is important to understand it deeply and be informed before reaching out to a certain community/beneficiares.

As you take this introductory M&E course, you may be introduced to new processes and tools. You may be tempted to rush out and try these exciting new ideas right away. We encourage you to pause and reflect before you do so. Does your team have the skills required to carry out this new process?

As you take this introductory M&E course, you may be introduced to new processes and tools. You may be tempted to rush out and try these exciting new ideas right away. We encourage you to pause and reflect before you do so. Does your team have the skills required to carry out this new process?

As you take this introductory M&E course, you may be introduced to new processes and tools. You may be tempted to rush out and try these exciting new ideas right away. We encourage you to pause and reflect before you do so. Does your team have the skills required to carry out this new process?

As you take this introductory M&E course, you may be introduced to new processes and tools. You may be tempted to rush out and try these exciting new ideas right away. We encourage you to pause and reflect before you do so. Does your team have the skills required to carry out this new process?

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Do no harm
Honesty
Competence

Do no harm
Honesty
Competence

I do agree that we need to understand very well how to use technical skills before implementing them; however, I do consider that it is important to try. Maybe, a good way to do so, is with a pilot/practice exercise to implement it. I do consider that cultural skills could be even more tricky, and it is important to understand it deeply and be informed before reaching out to a certain community/beneficiares.

Continuous learning is the only way to guarantee competence development.

My organization constantly encourages its employees to enhance their skills hence that is why i had to enroll this course which will equip myself with new skills in M&E. Competence

It is right that competence matters a lot when it comes to data process. As an M&E person, I have learn that technical and cultural knowledge must be put in place.

Competence as have rightly been discussed is very essential. When one has the understanding of the participants and their environment, it gives a cultural awareness. One must be very good with the app and means of data collection in other to get clean datas. This will be implemented in my organization to improve our data quality.

We have to be competent to get that position and we have to say I can't do it find another person who can do it and work on ourselves to be the best and most competent.

We have to be competent to get that position and we have to say I can't do it find another person who can do it and work on ourselves to be the best and most competent.

We have to be competent to get that position and we have to say I can't do it find another person who can do it and work on ourselves to be the best and most competent.

To ensure competence, continuous learning and capacity building is paramount.

Competence in engaging in an M&E process takes willingness to learn and time to practice. The openness to learn is an essential aspect of becoming competent in the M&E process because it is an attitude important to understanding the concepts and being accommodating to different varieties of skills and methods to apply concepts. Apparently, the learning of concepts and its relevance to the M&E process would be difficult to visualise unless applied. Having the time to practice or apply the skills to practical situations, enhances the learning and competence to employ an M&E process. All in all, a willingness to gain knowledge and put this into practice are necessary to be competent in doing M&E.

Competency in your work as a M&E is compulsory, Because the principle of Competency states that you should only use tools or processes it when you are confident that you have the skills (both cultural and technical) to use them competently.
that is to said for you to become competent as a M&E you must to be knowledgeable somebody that has the skills and to be a professional in term of data collection both cultural and technical, you and your team.

Competence provides skilled professional service . Team should have cultural and technical skills to carry out M&E processes.

Here I see very strong link between honesty and competence principles. The M&E practitioner should always with due honesty disclose her or his abilities to which extent or by using which methods can handle technical, cultural and other issues.

Sharing the experience, studying different project could be very useful for gaining necessary abilities and knowledge. It would be great if community of M&E specialists could be organized - for sharing experience and helping beginners with data collection tools design.

Competence is ensuring the capability of M and E personel in collecting honestly data and do no harm in the processprocess, by ensuring that they have all the knowledge and technically capability to collect accurate data

Competence is ensuring the capability of M and E personel in collecting honestly data and do no harm in the processprocess, by ensuring that they have all the knowledge and technically capability to collect accurate data

Competency culturally and technically is beneficial, and need to be learn to avoid unethical principles

in country like Uganda, in some organizations competence is questionable

skill development is important , for the team to be competent and confident in what they do ,they must do short courses for technical skills. take time to learn different cultures especially of the community that you are working with.

Cool,theres always best ways or methods of approaches dealing with different people of different cultures that they will always have accept and understand importance of what we re tying to do..so carrying survey or data.Always show respect and understand their opinions.

It is always a good thing to continually invest in learning. This not only improves skills and knowledge but also improves one’s confidence in carrying out M&E tasks. I am glad to be taking this course.

Well stated. In total agreement

As you take this introductory M&E course, you may be introduced to new processes and tools. You may be tempted to rush out and try these exciting new ideas right away. We encourage you to pause and reflect before you do so. Does your team have the skills required to carry out this new process?

Skills can be technical as well as cultural. Technical skills allow you to use tools and processes correctly. Examples include:

Mapping stakeholder needs

Storing data securely

Designing surveys

Competence is one of the key factor in ensuring data collected reflects the reality, as incompetent personnel are more likely to collect biased data because they are not comfortable using the tool or technique

IL faut savoir que récolter les données c'est un métier purement technique qui demande beaucoup des compétences alors il est bon de savoir reconnaitre ses capacités enfin de savoir comment s'améliorer.

The competence principle states that you should only use the processes tools when you are sure you have the necessary skills to perform the task.

Competence implies that M&E personnel should have the necessary skills and cultural competencies to carry out an M&E activity.

do what is within your reach. what is above you should only be done after you have gathered skills to do it.

Competence skill should be taken seriously...

a competent team would enable collection of accurate data that would help yield actual assessment

1. Improvement of skills for M&E process.
2. Ability to learn new things

Data should be collected in a technically sound and culturally appropriate manner. A strategic mix of data collection tools need to be chosen to elicit data from different stakeholders.

I think cultural skills are the most difficult to acquire as the cultural context can vary from community to community while technical skills are pretty much standardized.

It is important to self-reflect before beginning a project. Be honest about what you understand, what you don't know and how you can get this information.

I would say that it is important to first understand the cultural environment and then look at the factors of technical competence. It's possible that it's a completely new field of work or region or even country. If you don't understand the cultural environment, it will be impossible to get the correct information. Data collection must also be taken in an area of trust - this is often difficult as an outsider is sometimes not trusted, or even seen as a "spy" for the government. I have found this especially with economic development projects.
Declining a project is especially a difficult one for those of us who are self-employed consultants. Sometimes, the client already knows what answer they what and the M & E team are pressured into "massaging" the information to meet that demand.

Both Technical Skill (tools) & Cultural Skill (understanding the behavior/attitude/language) are important but you should only use these tool when you are confident that you have the skills (both cultural and technical) to use them competently.

It won't be on the advantage of any M&E professional to collect data if:
(i) He/she is not well-equipped or do not have much information about the culture of the community.
(i) He/she doesn't have necessary technical skills (designing survey...)

Competence is the third core M&E ethical principle. Competence = Cultural skills + technical skills.

Decline to run M&E processes that you are not equipped to do well. Become knowledgeable to your own limits. Do not data you aren't qualified or not comfortable running.

Helps one to provide skillful professional services

The correctness of one's self-monitoring judgments is referred to as monitoring competence. If one has a high level of monitoring competence, they can accurately judge their ability or knowledge, however if they have a low level, they can't.
Competencies for evaluators are also required. Depending on the function they play in the evaluation process, it generally refers to the skills, talents, knowledge, experience, and/or qualifications that an evaluator is expected to possess.