[/tab] [tab title=”What is the difference between monitoring and evaluation?”] Monitoring records the implementation of project ‘activities’, while evaluation aims to measure the achievement of ‘objectives’ and to study the processes involved in the preparatory and implementation phases. Evaluation can take place mid-term to help project managers re-adjust the implementation of the project. It can also take place at the end of the project (ex-post) so that lessons can be drawn by policy- makers and applied to newly formulated projects.
[/tab] [tab title=”Who should carry out the monitoring?”] Monitoring of ‘activities’ can be carried out by project staff, while the monitoring of ‘objectives’ and ‘assumptions’ is best done by external agents. Embassies and delegations are often well placed to act upon ‘assumptions’.
[/tab] [tab title=”Why is monitoring often required?”] Monitoring allows project managers to regularly oversee the implementation of activities. It ensures that information is collected, analysed and fed into the decision-making process, which itself is based on the Logical Framework matrix and work-plans (e.g. GANTT charts). Monitoring enables the intended ‘activities’ to be redirected or adjusted and enables project cycle managers and decision-makers to justify major redirections of the project. Only when `Results` have been specified by means of Objectively Verifiable Indicators then the project itself can be sufficiently objective too to measure and report achievement of Objectives (Results, Purpose and Overall Objectives). To secure the success of the intervention it it obvious that ASSUMPTIONS are key and need to be monitored closely.
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