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Sibongile Pinky Mgobozi

South Africa

Sibongile Pinky Mgobozi Member since 07/06/2026

MDI

Founding Director

Pinky Mgobozi is a South African development practitioner with experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Accountability (MERLA), governance, programme evaluation, community-led accountability, and technology-enabled systems. She has worked with community-based organisations, civil society structures, and multi-stakeholder initiatives focusing on gender-based violence prevention, rural development, youth leadership, education, and public accountability. Her work includes MERLA capacity strengthening, theory of change development, indicator design, evaluation support, and the use of digital systems to improve evidence collection, coordination, learning, and reporting. She is also interested in African and feminist approaches to evidence and the role of AI in strengthening inclusive and context-responsive evaluation practice.

My contributions

  • Blog

    When what is measurable becomes more important than what matters

    In South Africa, we are surrounded by evidence of progress. Strategies are adopted, budgets allocated, programs reach beneficiaries, infrastructure is completed, and annual reports record performance against targets. Yet communities describe a different reality. A women’s economic empowerment program can report thousands of participants trained while women still lack access to land, finance, markets and the time required to build sustainable livelihoods because unpaid care work remains unequally distributed. A water or sanitation project can be recorded as complete while rural households...
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