Capacity Building And Evaluation Independence Among Public Benefit Organizations In Homa Bay County, Kenya

ABSTRACT Monitoring and Evaluation over time have gained traction and become fundamental components in projects. Most internal evaluations are based on the assumption that evaluators are independent and do not bow to different forms of influence. Literature however reveals cases of evaluators being confronted by stakeholders to either alter or misrepresent their findings. Independence of evaluators at work is therefore at stake. The fear is that unless a solution is found, interferences are likely to continue hence threaten the credibility of evaluations. Empirical studies have been conducted…