Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Nuru Nigeria

Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Nuru Nigeria
Author: Ray Marshall Center
Date: November 2018
Publication Type: Report, 33pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.

OVERVIEW
Nuru International’s mission is to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile rural areas to build communities resilient to violent extremism.  Nuru International considers fragile states to continue to be a source of instability and relative deprivation in the world.  Vulnerabilities in marginalized communities are ripe for exploitation by violent extremist groups and ideologies.  Nuru International envisions a world in which all people live in an enabled environment with lasting, meaningful choices.  Free of the burdens of vulnerabilities that threaten the stability and resilience of households and communities, people will be able to thrive and to exercise their agency.

Nuru International believes that building resilient communities is best done by local leaders who produce and manage programs locally and nationally, combining and leveraging their knowledge, innovation and experience with international and expatriate expertise, support and resources.  Nuru International is committed to eliminating extreme poverty through investments in self-sustaining and scalable interventions.

Nuru’s integrated development model takes a holistic approach to address the most prevalent and fundamental challenges of extreme poverty through an intentional and co-creative design process.  By addressing vulnerabilities in an integrated way, Nuru enables individuals not just to improve their own well-being and climb out of the poverty trap, but also to avoid falling back into poverty.  Without a holistic approach to development, well-intentioned reforms and investment in one sector risk being squandered because they are not supported by measures in other sectors.

The Ray Marshall Center (RMC), an organized research unit in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas, is providing technical assistance to support Nuru’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts.  The RMC’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty.