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Thursday September 2, 2010

This section brings together a range of selected materials on key issues facing Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. It includes basic definitions, bibliographical resources and a selection of Good Practice.

Monitoring and Evaluation Systems

Presentation
Virtual Library
Good Practice
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Presentation

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation systems (PM&E) are data-collection and use processes providing evidence of change, with the aim to gear strategies toward expected impact. Generally, these systems are needed to develop and assess public policy, projects and programmes, promote accountability, help budgetary decision making and improve management of development interventions (PREVAL).

This section will provide information resources as well as useful links and notes on Good Practice in PM&E systems implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Virtual Library

Infographics: Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
This document incorporates IFAD’s new monitoring and evaluation guidelines and suggests a timely “road map” to guide professionals, technical staff and all those concerned with the development and implementation of baseline studies as part of r...Read more
A Guide on Self-Evaluation of Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity for Communities
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Institutionalizing Monitoring and Evaluation in Ifad-Cofinanced Projects in Latin America
Summary of surveys of directors and officers of monitoring and evaluation units, 2004 and 2007...Read more
Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Approaches, Development Steps and Success Factors
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Strengthening of Monitoring and Evaluation System
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Good Practice

Project monitoring as a change process in the organisational culture. Building on an experience by the ‘People with Value’ project, Lucia Peixoto Calil, Brazil, 2008
In July 2007, the People with Value project, run by the Brazilian government, started developing their M&E system. However, several issues prevented the M&E system from working effectively as well as an evaluation culture from developing. Within th...Read more
Lessons learned from the experience of implementing and managing a M&E Unit in an IFAD supported project, Uruguay, Rafael Sarno Altamirano, 2007
From 2001 to 2005, IFAD’s regional programme Rural Uruguay made the experience of implementing and managing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematisation Unit (M&E Unit). As part of this process a number of lessons learned were developed, and proje...Read more
Development of a Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematisation System (PMES) for PRODAP II
Five months after start up of PRODAP II, and having recruited its full staff of professionals, as a coincidence implementation was also initiated of an Intensive...Read more
“Lessons from implementing a Theory of change M&E system in the Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy initiative”. Furman, Ricardo IUCN, 2009.
This paper is centered in reflecting about the potential of applying the Theory of change as a useful tool in participatory monitoring and self-evaluation in the LLS context. It is not a comprehensive review of all elements of M&E in the initiative, ...Read more

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