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Series 2
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Monitoring and Evaluation

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Monitoring and
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MIS, Monitoring & Evaluation
Introduction
Monitoring and Evaluation
Process points: Types and levels of monitoring and evaluation activities
Some monitoring and evaluation definitions
What are indicators?
Methods and tools for monitoring and evaluation
Steps in planning and conducting monitoring and evaluation
❐ Tools and techniques: How to write your evaluation report
Tips for improving monitoring and evaluation of your project
Management Information Systems (MIS)
❐ What is on MIS?
❐ Why is an MIS important?
Sources for decision making, monitoring, and evaluation
❐ Targets
Designing an MIS
Using data to inform your MIS: conducting a baseline study
Performance information
Key questions in designing an MIS
Institutionalizing an MIS in an organization
MIS: step-by-step
Using MIS outputs for decision-making
How is information used in the organization?
❐ How does information flow in your organization?
A word about reporting
❐ Tips and Tools: Report preparation checklist
A final word about evaluation
❐ Process evaluation
❐ Output evaluation
❐ Effects evaluation
❐ Short-term impact evaluation
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Figures, Tables, and Exercises
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Exercise A:
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Relation between program monitoring and evaluation and the MIS
Comparing monitoring and evaluation
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