- 1: Introduction.
- 2: Timing.
- 3: Sub-steps.
- 3.1: Sub step 1: Planning monitoring and evaluation: Integrating monitoring into all stages of the project cycle.
- 3.2: Sub step 2: Levels of monitoring: community, divisional/district, national and donor levels.
- 3.3: Sub step 3: Management information: How to manage information generated by monitoring.
- 3.4: Sub step 4: Monitoring and reporting: How to report the observations and analyses.
- 3.5: Sub step 5: Evaluation: How to make value judgements after monitoring.
- 4: Products, expected outcomes and library .
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Sub step 1: Planning monitoring and evaluation: Integrating monitoring into all stages of the project cycle
A sanitation project aims to improve the sanitation situation of a particular community within a given time frame. This is achieved through a number of stages, each involving a series of activities that require investments in terms of time, money, human and material resources. Worthy of note are the planning, implementation and evaluation stages, in which monitoring should be integrated.
The planning phase: monitoring should be integrated into all phases of the planning process beginning from the situation analysis, problem identification, definition of the goal, formulation of strategies, designing a work plan to budgeting. Planning should indicate what should be monitored, how monitoring should be carried out and who should monitor. The monitoring activities should be shown on the work plan.
The implementation phase: All the planned activities are put into action at this stage. Monitoring is important here to ensure that the activities are implemented as scheduled.
The evaluation phase: Evaluation provides a picture of the extent to which the intended objectives of the activities have been achieved. Evaluation should be done before, during and after implementation.