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Understanding M&E

Perhaps GOOD - the team wit h the M&E plan - reminds you of your project. If so,
congratulat ions! Your M&E system is off to a great start. This course will help you
to deepen your knowledge and improve your M&E plan.

However, you may find that your project more closely resembles MEH, the team
without any M&E plan. If MEH reminds you of your project, don't worry! You are
in exact ly the right place. This course will help you plan for an exist ing project by:

 Deeply understanding your project ’s goals

 Deciding what to measure

 Developing tools and methods for measurement

 Figuring out which of your team members should collect, manage, analyze,
and use data

By the end of this course you will have written and developed an M&E p lan: a set
of tools and documents to support your M&E system and guide your project to
success. Before we start our work, however, let ’s take a moment to really
understand those two terms: monitoring and evaluat ion.

What are “monitoring and evaluat ion?”

When you were in school, you probably had a teacher who would give you feedback
every few days. Daily, weekly, or monthly, she would check the work that you were
doing, make comments, and help you out if she saw that you were having trouble.
The same teacher might also, every few months, give you a grade or a mark that
summarized how well you had done.
The work that we do on projects is similar. Daily, weekly or monthly we check our
projects to see how we are doing. This work is called monitoring, and it gives us the
power to make informed decisions. Every few mont hs - perhaps once a quarter, once
a year, or at the end of a project - we take a look at all the work we have done,
compare it to the original project plan and assess how successful we ’ve been. This
work is called evaluat ion.

Monitoring and evaluat ion both depend on carefully collect ing data about our
project, thinking about what the data mean, and using the data to answer quest ions.
The difference between monitoring and evaluat ion is how often t he data are used,
the kinds of data that are looked at, and what the data are used for.

Monitoring data are used regularly: daily, weekly, or monthly. Monitoring data are used to
answer questions such as:

 Is our project reaching its targets?


 Is our project spending money and resources efficiently?
 Have any problems come up?
 Have we noticed any successes?

Evaluation data are only used at specific times. For example, evaluation data may be used every
year, halfway through the project, or at the end of the project. Evaluation data are used to answer
questions like:

 Did our project achieve what it planned on achieving?


 Was our project a good use of money and resources?
 Did something happen that we didn’t plan?
 Did we learn something unexpected?
Try This:

Think about your project. What are some questions that you have? Could these questions be
answered with data? Write down as many monitoring and evaluation questions as you can.

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