If you have worked in the development field or with NGOs for a while, the abbreviation M&E definitely has come across your desk a couple of times.
While you probably know that it means Monitoring and Evaluation, maybe you are not quite sure how to go about it and what the benefits are of having a good monitoring and evaluation scheme in place.
Monitoring basically refers to the measuring and documenting of progress, achievements and results. The main goals of monitoring are to collect data to be able to learn from past experiences to improve present or future actions, to have accountability for the resource used, to be able to decide what works and what does not for the future development of the project and to be able to promote functioning approaches further.
Evaluation is the second step in the approach, where the data collected in during the monitoring process is analyzed and evaluated to be able to determine if a projects goal or aim was achieved or not.
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