The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is a systematic and participatory approach for project design and planning. By following the LFA, projects will also document information that will help inform their monitoring and evaluation. The LFA is like a diagnostic tool that helps you understand why things are happening. It helps uncover what the core problem […]
Social learning and evaluation Evaluation itself can be a vehicle for social learning, thereby enhancing the evaluation process as well as leading to learning (Measham, 2008). Social learning can be used to explore and analyse the change and adaptation process to highlight strengths and weaknesses in the design of a behaviour change and community adaptation
You should now be aware of what monitoring and evaluation is, and how it does not just refer to something you do at the end of a project, but rather something that ideally needs to be considered as part of a project’s life-cycle. Where are you on the project management cycle? Ideally, you should
Participatory monitoring and evaluation refers to getting all project stakeholders, particularly the target group, involved in a project evaluation (and also the design of the evaluation). The level of participation can vary, from the getting the target group to set objectives, targets, and data sources themselves, to getting participants to gather data, tell their story,
Project Evaluation Cycle Evaluation should not be considered a stand-alone activity. It should rather be thought of as a set of linked tasks that are undertaken from the start to the end (and beyond) of a project. This is diagrammatically represented in the project evaluation cycle below. Source: Project evaluation cycle adapted from TORQAID
Evaluation can be characterised as being either formative or summative (see Table below). Broadly (and this is not a rule), formative evaluation looks at what leads to an intervention working (the process), whereas summative evaluation looks at the short-term to long-term outcomes of an intervention on the target group. Formative evaluation Formative evaluation takes place
Conducting an evaluation is considered good practice in managing a project. The monitoring phase of project evaluation allows you to track progress and identify issues early during implementation, thus providing an opportunity to take corrective action or make proactive improvements as required. End of project evaluation allows you to judge the success of the activities
There are many definitions of evaluation in the literature and websites. For the purpose of this guide, we will define evaluation as a structured process of assessing the success of a project in meeting its goals and to reflect on the lessons learned. Project A project typically relates to a set of specific activities within
