Toolkits: A Practical Guide to Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

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Save the Children UK, 2003 - Social Science - 341 pages
Designing to promote a systematic approach to planning, reviewing and evaluating development work, covers the whole process of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. Includes a range of practical tools that can be adapted to suit different circumstances. This new edition brings a common sense approach to recent developments in monitoring and evaluation. There are new chapters on impact assessment and on planning, monitoring and evaluation of advocacy as well as new tools for training and developing monitoring and evaluation skills, stakeholder analysis, analysing the advocacy process and monitoring and evaluation in emergencies.
 

Contents

The importance of planning monitoring review
3
Involving the relevant people
10
Recognising and dealing with differences and
25
The systematic collection and analysis of
38
Questions to consider when undertaking
51
Assessment and programme planning
68
Monitoring
92
Review and evaluation
108
Costeffectiveness analysis
235
Strengths weaknesses opportunities
242
Example of evaluating participation
253
Using consultants
262
Programme or project visits
274
Presenting and sharing information
281
Training and development in planning
294
Stakeholder analysis
302

Impact assessment
125
Planning monitoring review and evaluation
144
Planning monitoring and evaluating advocacy
175
Participatory learning and action PLA
193
Surveys
217
Logical framework analysis LFA
222
Frameworks to help analyse the
308
Frameworks for developing monitoring
319
References and further reading
326
Glossary
336
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