What if nonprofit reporting is less about accountability—and more about the performance?

In this conversation, monitoring and evaluation specialist Sonja Wiencke takes us inside the world of nonprofit accountability—where organizations spend enormous amounts of time producing reports, indicators, frameworks, and compliance documents to prove their impact, while the people closest to the work can become little more than research subjects.

Drawing on nearly a decade working across international NGOs, funders, and grassroots organizations, Sonja asks us to move beyond simply recognizing the power dynamics embedded in the sector: If we know they're there, what are we going to do about them?

We explore what theater and storytelling can teach us about power, why so much accountability ...