Indicator development can be quite a challenge and far too often, no M&E expert is involved in this process. Consequently, M&E staff often has to work with difficult indicators. Based on my experience as an M&E consultant, in this article I give some examples of tricky indicators and make suggestions on how to report and present their progress.
Ideally, an indicator should cover only one aspect. In that case, it is easy to display its progress in a chart, because there is a clear and unidimensional progress trajectory. For example, if the indicator says "Three...