Members of the Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Community of Practice (MLE CoP) held their second annual meeting from 27 to 29 April 2016 at Swiss Hotel Villa Portofino in Kigali, Rwanda. The theme of the meeting was Harmonised Strategies for M&E Household and Yield Data Collection. There were 25 participants from eight sub-Saharan African countries, seven of whom were women. It was officially opened by Julius Okello, the CoP leader, with additional opening remarks from Clesensio Tizikira, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) M&E Specialist. The meeting was preceded by a three-hour hands-on orientation on how to use the Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal. The two day meeting program included presentations, trainings and hand-on practical sessions captured in this report.