In April 2026, ASDE Global facilitated a three-day intensive M&E training for staff of the Lagos State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, bringing together professionals from the Monitoring and Evaluation, Budget, Economic Planning, Economic Intelligence, and Statistics departments.
ASDE Global deployed a project-based learning model in which participants worked in mixed-experience groups across all three days, progressively building toward a full capstone presentation. Sessions covered performance monitoring frameworks, KPI development, data quality assurance, evaluation design, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive management. Each module fed directly into group work, meaning participants were not just absorbing knowledge but immediately translating it into practice, with real-time facilitator feedback shaping their understanding at every stage.
The Results Spoke for Themselves
Across ten participant groups, each developed a full M&E framework for a Lagos State program scenario spanning housing, healthcare, rural electrification, and public expenditure transparency. By the close of the training, most of the participants demonstrated full comprehension of the concepts covered, based on a mixed assessment of group exercise performance and facilitator observation. That outcome, achieved across a cohort that included both first-time M&E learners and experienced practitioners, is a direct result of intentional design.
Participants put it plainly. One described the training as delivering “valuable insights within a short time.” Another noted that “the facilitator made sure we understood every concept and used her real-life M&E experience to deepen the learning.” A third simply said: “The facilitator exceeded my expectations.”
The Permanent Secretary of MEPB, Mrs Olayinka Ojo, presided over the closing ceremony — an institutional endorsement that reflects the ministry’s serious investment in this process.
A Follow-On Commission: The Clearest Signal of Impact
The ministry’s confidence in ASDE Global did not end there. Following the success of the April training, ASDE Global has been approved to deliver a more extensive M&E capacity strengthening program for a broader cohort of ministry officials across additional departments, scheduled for Summer 2026.
In the development sector, a follow-on commission from the same client is the clearest signal of impact. It means the work landed, the learning transferred, and the institution wants more. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Why This Work Matters
For ASDE Global, this engagement reinforced a conviction at the core of everything we do: sustainable development outcomes require institutions that can measure what they are doing, learn from what they find, and adapt without waiting for external pressure to force change. Training senior public servants is not peripheral to our mission. It is one of the most direct levers available for building the evidence culture that African governments need to deliver on their mandates.
If your ministry, agency, or development program is ready to move beyond compliance-driven M&E toward genuine institutional learning, we are ready to work with you.
