Why do we do Monitoring and Evaluation?

Is it simply to please our donors?

Donor-Grantee relationships

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating programmes for orphans and vulnerable

children at the community level

CINDI PMER workshop12-14 March, 2007

If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to know when you get there?

-Yogi Berra

Who are we really trying to serve by conducting M & E?

Children are our key stakeholders, so our Monitoring and Evaluation should ultimately serve their needs.

Otherwise we are just paying lip service to please our donors.

KEY PRIMARY QUESTIONS THAT M&E ANSWERS

• Are we doing the right things to best serve the children in our communities?

• Are we doing them right? Are we being effective in what we do?

• Do we have the right focus to have the intended impact? Should we increase/decrease our target group?

Purposes of M&E

Learning and Program

Improvement

Learning and Program

Improvement

Reporting/Accountability

Reporting/Accountability

ShareData withPartners

ShareData withPartners

Putting LEARNING Into M & E

Learning is, or should be, the main reason why a project or organization monitors its work or does an evaluation.

Purpose of Learning:

To make changes where necessary To identify and build on strengths

where they exist To understand, and to make

conscious, assumptions To avoid stagnation

Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop:

Mwana Project Partners

Maputo, Mozambique 21-23 February

Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop:

Mwana Project Partners

Maputo, Mozambique 21-23 February

Workshop Goal

To encourage Mwana partners to incorporate monitoring and

evaluation into their planning processes.

Workshop Objectives:

Have an understanding of the importance of Monitoring and Evaluation as part of program planning.

Apply Monitoring and Evaluation to their program planning processes.

Understand the benefits of Monitoring and Evaluation to their programs and projects and view Monitoring and Evaluation as a key to overall success, rather than seeing it as a scary and daunting process.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Challenges

Mozambique is a poor country, with few resources, and developing infrastructure

Language Knowledge and experience is limited Communication is difficult

particularly with areas outside of Maputo

Overcoming the challenges

Used basic and easy to understand language (little or no M & E lingo)

Included a variety of stakeholders: activists, coordinators, administrative staff, upper-level management

Used hands-on, practical exercises and group work that incorporated actual programs and projects of the partners involved

Repetition of concepts and more difficult subject matter, using real life examples

Useful Resources

Olive Publications: On Program Planning for Development and Monitoring and Evaluation

CIVICUS Toolkits: On Planning, Action Planning, and Monitoring and Evaluation. At www.civicus.org