WEEK 13

• Monitoring the act of observing something.
• Monitoring - Looking into the process, going towards the target, right selection of beneficiaries
• Monitoring, procedures are being followed according to the work plan
• Monitoring, Meeting our target or not, activity monitoring
• MONITORING - Continuous information collection/analysis/reporting for decision making•Program is going in right direction as planned
• Systematic recording of:

  ●Observations

  ●Information gathering

  ●Analysis●Documentation

  ●Reflection

  ●Action
• Staff meetings – weekly, monthly, annually
• Partners meeting / Learning Forums / Retreat
• Participatory Reviews – Stakeholders
• Monitoring Tools

  ●Staff meetings – weekly, monthly, annually

  ●Partners meeting / Learning Forums / Retreat

  ●Participatory Reviews – Stakeholders

  ●Monitoring and Supervision Mission

  ●Progress reports 
• Goals of Monitoring

  To ensure the inputs, activities and outputs proceed according to plan

  ●Determine whether the inputs are optimally utilized

  ●Ensuring all activities are carried out by the right people and in time

  ●To provide record of inputs, activities, and outputs

  ●To warn of deviations from objectives●To assist managers in making decisions

  ●Monitoring should take place at and be integrated into all stages of the project cycle
• Evaluation- The structured interpretation and giving of meaning to predicted or actual impacts of proposals or results.
• Evaluation - Judging, appraising, determining the worth, value, or quality of a project to make necessary decisions.
• Relevance: The extent to which the objectives of a development intervention are consistent with beneficiaries requirements, and partner’s and donor’s policies.
• Effectiveness: doing the right things
• Efficiency: doing things right
• Sustainability: Meeting needs without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their needs (project will continue after donors intervention)
• Impact: Positive or negative, direct or indirect long-term impact produced by a development intervention
• Formative Evaluation - Evaluation intended to improve performance, most often conducted during the design and/or implementation phases of projects or programs
• Summative Evaluation - A study conducted at the end of an intervention to determine the extent to which anticipated outcomes were produced
• Participatory evaluation - Evaluation in which representatives of agencies and stakeholders work together in designing, carrying out and interpreting an evaluation.
• Process based evaluation - An evaluation of the internal dynamics of a project, its policy instruments, its service delivery mechanisms, its management practices, and the linkages among these.
• Outcome-based evaluation - It facilitates the asking if the organization is doing right activities to bring about the expected outcomes
• Self-evaluation - An evaluation by those who are entrusted with the design and delivery of a project.
• Goal-based evaluation - Evaluating the extent to which projects are meeting predetermined goal / impact