Monitoring and Evaluation


 

 



About Monitoring and Evaluation

Leading Point is delivering high quality evaluation and monitoring services, by maintaining and growing its client portfolio as well as ensuring the quality of all in-house evaluations, while responding to current demands for greater analysis of real impact of development interventions on the ground.Monitoring and evaluation can help an organization extract relevant information from past and ongoing activities that can be used as the basis for programmatic fine-tuning, reorientation and future planning.
Leading Point provides donors and government officials learning from past experience, improving service delivery, planning and allocating resources, and demonstrating results as part of accountability to key stakeholders. Within the development community there is a strong focus on results— this helps explain the growing interest in M&E.



Data Collection Methods

Those illustrated here include several data collection methods, analytical frameworks, and types of evaluation and review.

  • Performance indicators.
  • Formal surveys.
  • Participatory methods.
  • Public expenditure tracking surveys.
  • Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis.
  • Impact evaluation.


Surveys

Formal surveys can be used to collect standardized information from a carefully selected sample of people or households. Surveys often collect comparable information for a relatively large number of people in particular target groups.

  • Providing baseline data against which the performance of the strategy, program, or project can be compared.
  • Comparing different groups at a given point in time.
  • Comparing changes over time in the same group.
  • Comparing actual conditions with the targets established in a program or project design.
  • Describing conditions in a particular community or group.
  • Providing a key input to a formal evaluation of the impact of a program or project.
  • Assessing levels of poverty as basis for preparation of poverty reduction strategies.