Always be willing to look back and ask hard questions about what you have done. In the end, you are intervening in people’s lives, and that carries enormous responsibility.
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It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes — eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox — are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work. 

Read: Ned Breslin’s (PopTech 2010) piece on Measuring impact over time from our most recent Edition - Made to Measure: The new science of impact.

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