Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) experts suggest that agreement among stakeholders on project objectives, a baseline study and a programme of consistent data collection, review and analysis are the cornerstones of good practice. This article describes an
electricity to LPG intervention where few of these components were in place, and how a subsequent evaluation was implemented. Issues related to stakeholder perspectives of success and baseline information are explored. The purpose is to share the experience and highlight the mistakes made in the hope that this will contribute to developing more transparent and critical M&E procedures.