MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Monitor and evaluate progress Having ways to check on your progress (monitoring) and take stock of where things are at on a regular basis (evaluation), are important for your group to function effectively. Having ways to check on your progress (monitoring) and take stock of where things are at on a regular basis (evaluation), are important for your group to function effectively. Monitoring and evaluation are critical for taking stock of progress and for helping to ‘learn as we go’. Monitoring and evaluation can help groups to identify issues, measure success and learn from any mistakes. This notion is closely linked to the ‘learning’ principle of successful community conservation projects. You can use this worksheet for step-by-step guidance on how to plan your evaluation. Work through the questions, fill in the worksheet as you go and refer back to these sections for ideas. Monitoring Monitoring is the systematic gathering and analysing of information that will ...