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A good monitoring & evaluation plan targets the activities in the following manner & will include:
– Assess the impact of the activities undertaken
– To measure the project’s success & effects
– To monitor the project’s performance on an ongoing basis
– Tools used for monitoring & evaluation
– List of indicators to gauge the success of the activities
There are two kinds of monitoring and evaluation system. One is internal M&E, where the organizations itself will act as a watch dog to monitors the activities by constituting its own M&E committee. Second is external monitoring and evaluation, in which external M&E experts come to evaluate the project, which are mainly form donor agencies. Monitoring is a continuous process. From initial month of the implementing year, all activities should be monitored by an expert monitoring team.
However, evaluation would take place at the end of the year after collecting information of each and every activity. An indicators’ sheet should also be prepared to quantify the data and also to analyze the expected and actual; outcome of the project. The parameters of the indicators sheet should be in collaboration with the objectives and activities of the project. Evaluation can be quantitative or qualitative or both. For instance- number of drop out children enrolled in Education Resource Centre (quantitative) and improvement in basic reading & writing of children (qualitative).
