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M&E helps the team to identify the right channels/activities in order to achieve the expected outcomes/outputs.

M&E guides on understanding the progress in achieving the set targets within an organization.

M&E assists in communicating any deviation from the planned activities in order to change interventions towards realising the set outcomes/goals.

Some ideas for MEH monitoring and evaluation:

• First of all it should be defined what are the loan purposes, e.g. starting a business, covering for insurance, children education, etc.
• Depending on the purpose the elements to be monitored will vary.
• In general when given a loan it is important to record the number, the amounts, repayment rates, defaults, etc.

This is well understood

M&E is essential for the success and also the future of a successful enterprise

knowing the importance of any process is the first step to learn it.

this topic is really good

The importance of M & E will help you track progress, and find ways evaluate if you are off. Hence this will help you make better decisions. Decisions that are not just based on opinion but on evidence.

Having an M & E plan will help you show impact, and how activities lead to outcomes.

Further, having an understanding of risks and assumptions will help you to plan better to challenges that may rise!

ignoring the importance of M & E will lead all the efforts and resources to be lost in the sea.

First of all, Microfinance for Expanding Horizons (MEH) doesn't have a clear M&E plan to show it to its donor. They are confused about how and where to start the program since they don't even have the goals and objectives of the program.

Therefore let's help them prepare an M&E plan for them.
First of all carry out a baseline assessment of the program by collecting and providing the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement the program, which will help them to allocate, and re-allocate resources in better ways.

If the goal and objective are to boost the local economy and to enhance the well-being of the local people, they should, first of all, consider the type of business that suits the local market, where there is a constant cash floor. Seek assistance from the business that is already successful, request a copy of the cash flow of that particular business. That data/information could be useful. Also, conduct a simple market survey as a baseline assessment to assemble the data, or choose a period of time to carry out a trial project to assemble enough data to create an M&E plan for MEH. Based on your primary data collection draw up an M&E plan.

M&E is essential for the success and also the future of a successful enterprise. In fact it is the for me the brains and the hands and feet of a business

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On my side I see that MEH have the assignment on knowing their specific targets people /companies would they want to borrow money from then and see if it is realistic to grow from that

So M& E would be perfect first to be clear their goal and be able to break it down to specific objectives, then describe how specific are they going to see their goal be fullfilled through the specific activities they will perform

Seriousely, i can deduced from the lecture that, M&E is a good parameter that gives good record during and after a project.

To help you know how the project is doing

M n E PROVIDES A RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PROJECT DURING AND AFTER THE PROJECT

If you are in this course, it is likely that you are already doing the difficult work of improving the world. If so, you know how confusing, complex and unexpected this work can be. It can be difficult to understand the causes of complex problems, whether specific solutions work, and why some projects succeed while others do not.

This course will prepare you to use facts and evidence to understand these puzzles. Specifically, this course will teach you how to make a plan to collect, manage and use project information (data). Before we get started, let’s learn a few important terms.

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Monitoring a project is the. collection ofinformation on the project regularly in order to assess the performanceof the project over a period of time. this will help to decide whether the project is effective and how the resources are adequately utilized.Evaluation is an assessment of the extent to which the project has achieved its stated objectives as well as a measure of the level to which the outcomes can be linked with project intervention.
Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E) are necessary measures in every project as it continuously assesses the project and ensures that resources are effectively used to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the project. M&E take place continously from the planning stage of the project till the end and ensures that all members of the team work in a synergy to ensure that that the project outcomes are linked with the stipulated intervention.

Hi, my name is Baldeep and I'm from India. I have done masters in business management and have been working in social development sector from past four years. My objective to join this course was just to build my understanding on above topic.

The Monitoring and Evalution provides the information to support project implementation with accurate, evidance-based reporting that informes management and decision-making to guide and improve project performance. It also demonstrate zhether or not the project has been carried out as agreed.

After reading the example of MEH, I immediately rely it to the situation of many organizations that work without the M and E plan when dealing with projects . This may provides disasterous reports.

On récolte les données à deux fins: le suivi et l'évaluation. Le suivi consiste à recueillir les données quotidiennement, hebdomadairement, mensuellement, et à utiliser ces données pour ajuster le projet. Quant à l'évaluation, elle consiste à comparer systématiquement les résultats obtenus aux plans du projet et à juger du progrès réalisé par le projet.

what are the importance of M&E?

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Certainly M&E gives projects direction and increases the chances of success as it clearly states the goals and aims of the projects. It also states the project activities so that it helps project staff know what they are meant to be doing.

M & E helps in checking the progress of project and in tracking the performance of the project to see if the project is progressing towards the intended goals. This provides room for improvement if the project is recorded to be not on track

M & E helps in checking the progress of project and in tracking the performance of the project to see if the project is progressing towards the intended goals. This provides room for improvement if the project is recorded to be not on track.

M&E Plan is important because it helps to specify precisely the objectives of the project, how the progress of activities would be measured, what is the impact of the project on benificiaries and how the project could be improved. The M&E plan helps to ensure the accountability to donors and partners.

my organisation wants to help war displaced women create small biusinesse for tgemselves and for their families by training them and financing them through cooperative creations.

m&E is vital for aligning all activities to meet donor requirements, i recall working under a project were M&E wasn't used, the project team ended up implementing activities out of the project scope and eventually strategic objects and the project goal were not met

Monitoring and evaluation enable us to:
1)To know how well the project is doing in terms of achieving the set objectives

2. To measure the progress of the project through evaluating feedback from clients or beneficiaries
   3 ) To catch a problem and make necessary changes
3. To confidently compile an annual report for your funders and partners regarding the success of the project
4. To plan on manner and method of data collection
   6)To improve on the project

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MEH. The first step to set up a M&E plan is to review the logical framework of the project by clarifying and updating the project activities the expected results interms of target and specific objectives.

Monitoring and Evaluation processes are the most important part from a Project Cycle Management as it allow us to analyse and measure to which extent our project is successful or have had an impact.

M&E is important because it helps a person to identify whether the project are likely to be attained

its hard to ignore the importance of M&E in development work. There is a constant need to learn from experiences and identify best practices. Not to mention limited resources; there is a need to learn how to use resources efficiently and effectively.

M&E is important because it provides consolidated sources of information showcasing project progress which is very important for the success of a project, generates reports with transparency and accountability which can be shared with donors and other stakeholders, identifies mistakes and suggests the pathways for improvement and learning, also form a means to create a link between implementer and beneficiaries on the ground and decision-makers.

M&E is important for the overall improvement of the program. M&E helps in reporting and accountability. It's also vital for provision of data to stakeholders

M&E is important for the overall improvement of the program. M&E helps in reporting and accountability. It's also vital for provision of data to stakeholders.

M&E plan helps you with a good project plan and a proper way of tracking your project

Very good start, fantastic explanation!

They could measure how many loans, what age were the girls, how long they took to pay, if they pay, interest rates, etc.

Monitoring and Evaluation is part of project management. Having a good M&E system contribute obviously to the achievement of project goals. Each stage of project cycle is intimately linked to a M&E task. While monitoring enable to track to progress of project, evaluation help to answer whether project goals have been met and what can be do differently for next time (lessons learned).

M&E can help us to measure the progression of project's activities and achieve the project's obective. In addition, it can help us to operating the activities drives smoothly and efficiently

Monitoring and evaluation together provide the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement programmes and projects, and to allocate, and re-allocate resources in better ways. It increases efficiency and effectiveness.

M&E can help us to measure the progression of project's activities and acheives the gaol of project's objective. In addition, it can support the activities drive smoothly and efficiently.

To track the progress of the project and to make formal decisions on how effective the project will be and how efficient the use of resources will be, there must be an exercise of monitoring. on the hand to know how activities achieved the project objectives and to link the interventions to the changes of the outcomes, there must be an exercise of Evaluation. combining the two exercise it means there must be Monitoring and Evaluation which can not be done without its plan. so the M&E plan is of paramount importance to register proper tracking of the project's progress.

the importance of M&E makes me understand manage project content to measure the processess

At the beginning it is paramount to see which previous information about the tageted beneficiaries are avaible, so that we can draw the picture of their situation according to the field of the project (in this case the financial skills of women in Kenya). After that, it would be possible to try to understand in which way the action (giving loans) could have an impact on their situatuation (how an imput, as a loan, can create an improvement on women's life), and later on select which indicators can give us the proper information about the impact of the project.

The two clear fictional examples of the GOOD and MEH projects on M&E are very clear and depict the real problems that projects are facing on the ground. At the onset, they are mind openers on what I am about to learn. Thanks

Having an M&E plan really helps in putting main issues into perspective. You also have something to fall back on when a project is not going well to see areas that need to be worked on to bring out the desired results.

Monitoring and evaluation provide's informations on what an intervention is doing, how well it is performing and whether it is achieving its aims and objectives guidance on future intervention activities. its An important part of accountability to funding agencies and stakeholders.

Monitoring and evaluation provide's informations on what an intervention is doing, how well it is performing and whether it is achieving its aims and objectives guidance on future intervention activities. its An important part of accountability to funding agencies and stakeholders.

Monitoring and evaluation provide's informations on what an intervention is doing, how well it is performing and whether it is achieving its aims and objectives guidance on future intervention activities. its An important part of accountability to funding agencies and stakeholders.

This is indeed a good topic

Monitoring simply means tracking the progression and activities of an ongoing project.

Evaluation means checking the positive impact, strategically learning and improving an ongoing projects, to ensure it's sustainability.

Hello,

I think M&E is extremely important because it does not only give ways of measurement about the project's activities and results, it also helps to understand the project's functions or project's organization by providing a general view of the project's intervention.

Regards,

José Luis

The GOOD initiative, stands to not only benefit the donors but also the government and local population, through the data collected, before (baseline survey) and after (evaluation), changes in outcome in the lives of girls as well as their perception in terms of money and economic decision making will most likely be noticed. This in turn can help the girls take loans and develop.
A good M&E plan, is as good as the team in the planning, the individuals in the MEH project could not come to a decision and thus the entire process faulters.

It demonstrates how project/ programme efforts have had a measurable impact on expected outcomes and have been implemented effectively

What are the basic importance of M&E in our daily lives

What are the basic importance of M&E in our daily lives

I am in the early phase of planning a project and as I ask "how will we know we have succeeded?" I begin to see the importance of having an M&E plan right from the start.

Monitoring and evaluation helps with identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. ... Monitoring and evaluation together provide the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement programmes and projects, and to allocate, and re-allocate resources in better ways

`It is a good tool when it comes to Planning and actualization

it has added great confident in my profesional approach in project management

M&E will help details you and your activities before your Donors

The importance of Monitoring and Evaluation M & E:
Monitoring;

• To monitor a progress of any project there is a serious need to collect data that shall be used to analyze its progress and whether the project operations addresses the key objectives or not.
• it also will help understand which areas needs interventions.
  Evaluation;
• at the end of given periods specified in the project plans the same data collected through monitoring shall be helpful for the determinant of future actions this includes budgetary allocations or funding after evaluation.
• it also helps understand the management or operatives abilities in handling the project activities or whether there is need for training plans to bridge the skill or competency gaps for proper performance achievements.

In progression of what I have learnt in module 1

● project activities includes:
1.Inputs which are the things but in a project.
2.Outputs are the things that you know your project will make
3.Outcomes are a bridge between activities and impact.

4. Impact are the positive change made to create a difference in alignment with the plan or initiation of the project.

Looking for risks and assumptions before and during project design phase is a powerful way to escape your biases.

At the programme level, the purpose of M&E is to track implementation and outputs systematically and measure the effectiveness of programmes.

MEH have to do more than collecting information of number of girls getting loans. They have to come with the plans on collecting information about how many businesses are getting loans?how many are putting the loans to proper use? How does the loan improve their businesses. What other ways their should improve their loan giving process for proper M&E?

M&E is very important for project analysis

Creating a data collection tool should largely depend on the resources that you have. This is because the best tools are usually time consuming and expensive. Therefore,if an organization has the resources,they should consider the best tools however expensive they are.

I am excited about this plan

Monitoring and evaluation plan is a key instrument that encourage and motivate project managers and team thick clearly on what they intent to doing in the way M&E way before executing the project.

M&E is important so that you can track the success (and failures) of your project. This contributes to lessons learnt for subsequent projects and if a project is really successful it can be part of best international practices

Indeed an M and E plan helps guide a an organisation to direct efforts, resources towards achieving a specific goal.

Microfinance for Expanding Horizons (MEH)

Goals:
1- Girls borrow small amounts of money (microloans) to start business.

Measurements:
1- The value and number of loans and savings accounts;
2- Types of financial services offered;
3- Percentage of target population served;
4- Annual growth rate of assets;

Collect information:
1- Monthly report for monitors to monitor the evolution of the programme.
2- Yearly report for funders to say exactly how successful the project is.

Monitoring & Evaluation is an integral part of any successful project. A well organized and timely developed M&E plan helps the project workers to measure their ongoing progress on regular basis in terms of the designed activities as well as to assess how the project activities are reaching the pre-set objectives. Project officials can suffer in projecting their achievements over time as well as in linking the outcomes with the project efficacy due to lack of M&E.

M&E is exactly what will show you how you are progressing and if there is any problem you will notice before it get out of hand. I realised that it is so important for every organisation small or big to have M&E officer.

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Monitoring is very important

The main work of the M&E team is to collect, process, evaluate data. The M&E team should evaluate the progress of the project. To check the progress of the project data is most important, bases on the data the the progress of the project would be known. so, the data is very important for the M&E team.

I think the importance of M&E lies in the fact that we can measure progress and track performance over time of any given project or activity which in turn can help us to be more efficient moving forward or improve the project during or after implementation.

It helps to know how well the project is performing during implementation and make adjustments where necessary. M&E helps to understand whether the project inputs are are producing the desired project objectives and goals. It also helps to understand the extent to which project beneficiaries and stakeholders are satisfied by the project. M&E also helps to know to what extent the project was successfully implemented. It also helps to demonstrate to donors how their resources where used. Lessons learnt and best practices can be also be used for decision making, replicate in future similar projects and to source for more funding.

Looking for risks and assumptions before and during project design phase is a powerful way to escape your biases.
In this context, a risk is defined as an uncertain threat that, in case of occuring, could have a negative impact in the completion of the goal or activity. An assumption, on the other side, is the necessary condition that will enable the completion of the goal or activity.
An assumption is any project factor that is considered to be true, real or certain without empirical proof or demonstration.

The importance of Monitoring and Evaluation is that it gives the project implimentor the results of the project either the project is effective or not and if there is need to change the project that is if it did not reach its goals , and either to end the project if it has accomplished its goals , and to be able to come up with others methods or strategies to improve the project so as to be able to reach the targets or goals of project

I believe this topic will help me much since my project is at outset where good M&E plan paramount to measure the success and failure of the project which will be implemented for the coming 36 months.

I have not understood the importance of M&E very well

The importance of M&E
M&E is important because it enables pertinent information about the project to be collected regularly to measure progress of project activities, this will aid in tracking performance of the project over time, and it will help decision makers to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of the project and efficient use of resources. With M&E we are able to determine how well the project activities have achieved the project's objective & how much change in the out come is directly linked to the project's interventions.

The importance of M&E
M&E is important because it enables pertinent information about the project to be collected regularly to measure progress of project activities, this will aid in tracking performance of the project over time, and it will help decision makers to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of the project and efficient use of resources. With M&E we are able to determine how well the project activities have achieved the project's objective & how much change in the out come is directly linked to the project's interventions.

M&E is very important in project implementation as it helps to measure the progress of
activities in the project. It also tracks the performance of the project overtime.

The Importance of M&E

• provides data showcasing project progress
• allows actors learn from each other's experiences, building expertise and knowledge
• Reports contribute to transparency and accountability
• reveals mistakes and failures and provides path for learning
• provides basis for questioning and testing assumptions
• assesses the link between implementors, beneficiaries and decision makers
• it provides a more robust basis for raising funds and influencing policy

m& E is important for any organization as it helps in decision making, and identifying whether the goals of a project have been met

m& E is important for any organization as it helps in decision making, and identifying whether the goals of a project have been met

helps an organization to know the progress of a project
is crucial in measuring change to determine the impact of a particular project

The importance of M & E cannot be over emphasized as it enables collection of data. The collected data can be reviewed and used for reporting, tracking of project objectives actualisation and decision making.

M&E has major rule in the project implementation cycle, that we could asses our goals, activities

M&E has major rule in the project implementation cycle, that we could asses our goals, activities