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Looking forward to learning more.

I'm looking forward to finding out how to most effectively help groups like MEH.

Unrealistic targets is a major reason why project implementation fails. Setting unrealistic targets connotes a lack of excellent M&E skills. It iis expected that, proper background research and analysis of all indicators relating to a project in view is done to guide the project manager and his team in setting ambitious, but yet realistic targets. Project targets must never be the product of guesswork or dreamland persuasion. Of course, it is good to dream of making something realisable in real life: man has being able to travel to the moon and to planet Mars. Commercial space travel is now a dream come true, courtesy of Mr Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson. Same applies to the invention of the flying car, which has successfully completed flight tests of 40 minutes between two airports in Europe. We also have amphibious cars in existence today. However, years of research, monitoring and evaluation went into these projects' design; set up; implementation; and completion/ commissioning phases. Many skilled project managers and M & E experts constituted part of the team that brought these products into existence. Indeed, targets were set; but they were realistic targets, which could possibly had being reviewed in the face of new challenges that might had arisen in the course of projects implementation.

Before the project kick off the project team with the M&E people needs to come together and develop M&E Indicator matrix

a well-functioning monitoring and evaluation system is an essential component of good project management and accountability

I illustrated examples are easy to understand and I can't wait to learn how to create a plan for my own project.

M&E is usefull in:
Reporting to Beneficiaries /Government, Performance Management, Learning for better implementation and Accountability to Funders

The examples illustrated above are so easy to understand. I am excited to learn how to create a plan for my own project because I am the perfect example of MEH!

• helps in reporting to beneficiaries

• Helps in performance management

• Facilitates in learning for better implementation

• Provides accountability to the funder

In order for any project to succeed there should exist an M&E plan to ensure that the project goals are being achieved.

M&E helps to measure the successes of a project

I have never created a monitoring and evaluation plan for a project before, yet I am thankful for this course that would help bring light to what monitoring and evaluation is as well as understanding and knowonk how to make a project Monitoring and Evaluation plan

From the two project examples given above, it's important to have the knowledge of M&E for you to successfully keep tracks of results either positive or negative which will help you made a good decisions.

M&E is very important in projects because it helps stakeholders stay in focus with respect to the objectives of the project .At the same time ,they can accurately follow the progress of the project ,make possible changes and increase the chances of successful and satisfactory completion of project

• M&E looks like time keeper.

• like budget obseravor.

• it is important in our life

M&D is happening every in our daily live even in our houses

The importance of M&E is located at its accuracy

The importance of M&E is located at its accuracy

Every thing is M&E in society

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) helps with the routine collection of data to track project performance over a period of time that helps to make informed decisions about effectiveness of project interventions. M&E also guides whether planned activities have achieved the set objectives of the project and how much change in terms of outcomes can be linked to project interventions. Overall, all this helps us to know whether the project has achieved its intended purpose or not.

M&E is the map to how project or activities will implement to achieve project outcome or goal. The monitoring will show how progress of the activities is going and track to make sure the activities implement as per the planed. Then feedback the implementer if there is comments or points during implementing to avoid and adjusted the deviation through carried out of project. In others hand, the evaluation assiss in knowledge how the outcome is achieved and measured the changes during implementation that enhance to reach to the achievement the project objective, as well catch up the best exercise during implementation with looking for for the lesson learned for the project to feedback for further interventions

Am interested to find out how MEH makes through into forming a plan. The project is really interesting and am set to learn more from it.

It help to track the ongoing project by collecting relevance data for the project.
Developing systematic way of collecting data for the project

monitoring and Evaluation is very important to every organization who intend to increase its growth through effectiveness and efficiency. it can add value for the development of individuals and organizations. effective, transparent and (if possible) comparable M&E must therefore take place to further determine the inherent benefits, risk and limitations of organization activity.

Monitoring and Evaluation is important because:

• it provides the only consolidated source of information showcasing project progress

• it allow actors to learn from each other's experiences, building on expertise and knowledge

• it often generate reports that contribute to transparency and accountability, and allow for lessons to be shared more easily

• it reveals mistakes and offer paths for learning and improvement.

• it provides a basis for questioning and testing assumptions

• it provides a more robust basis for raising funds and influencing policy.

M&E support the project team to identify the problems immediately and manage it before having negative impact on the project. it also help to track the progress of the project implementation. On the other hand, M&E measure the achievement level of the project objectives.

As a discussion point, I want to ask the team: As an M&E, how do we make sure the program team to understand the importance of M&E for the success of the project they are implementing? In the field of work, we observe that program team always see the M&E a tool for investigation or looking for errors.

1. Microfinance for Expanding Horizons must know the number of girls that has account with them.
2. choose the age range that will be needing the loan.

Its a great start I think as we start planning about M&E for MFH, by doing so, we can plan for our project as well.

The importance of monitoring and evaluation in projects is that projects are in inevitable for changes and when you have not done or come up with a monitoring and evaluation plan it made be hard if the changes come up in the progress of the project.
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Lawrence Kikwameti

The team should know how many girls they are targeting .
How much are they going to lend girls ,and also what business are the girls into or their plan to do with the microloans once given.And measure the approximate of the life span of the business of the girls.

L'importance entre le suivi et l'évaluation
le suivi nous permet suivre et de comprendre l'évolution, le progrès, l'avancement du projet et des activités mais aussi de nous faire comprendre si nous sommes entrain de d'avancer vers les objectifs que nous devons atteindre.
l'évaluation quand ta lui, nous permet non seulement de suivre l'avancement du projet mais aussi d'évaluer si le projet profite bien aux bénéficiaires, la redevabilité envers le bailleur, les bénéficiaires, etc...

Great one....The first project is Girls Organizing for Ongoing Development (GOOD)...i dont have an insight on the M and E duties

From the aforementioned discussion on "The Importance of M&E". M&E is very important to a project, especially from the implementation stage. Therefore, all projects must create a M&E plan. I am willing to learn by doing. Let us help MEH prepare their plan.

Grant, W

Hello! My name is Douglas Ondieki, a project officer for an OVC project in Kenya

The M&E is important to :

• measure the progress of one project
• to monitoring the progress
• to see if the implementation of the activities is on track with the objectives of the project
• to evaluate the outcome of the project

Project monitoring and evaluation are of paramount importance to the success of any project, whether it is long or short term. Thanks to the data collected regularly during the monitoring, we can have a clear picture of the evolution of the project, which will allow us to know what decisions to take and with the help of the evaluation we can determine the success of the project from the scale set in the project.
So the combination of these two forms the skeleton of the project.

From the two project examples given above, it's important to have the knowledge of M&E for you to successfully keep tracks of results either positive or negative which will help you made a good decisions.

1. For easily setting of targets
2. To measure whether or not those targets are effectively achieved
3. For documentation of evidence
4. To track implementation and outputs systematically, and measure the effectiveness of programmes.

Je pense que dans le cas du projet MEH, on devrait se reférer au CMR qui donnes une certaine nombre d'informations sur les résultats et des indicateurs qui permettront de définir l'information exacte à collecter.

Oui, mais le plus souvent, on a l'impression que les gestionnaires du projet et programme ne se rendent pas compte des ces aspects dans la réusite de l'implémentation du projet/programme

M&E is very important to anyone trying to assess the successes and failures of his/her project. It gives edges to proper planning and distribution of job to the team members. M&E is good for accuracy while writing proposal to avoid to many questions when called upon.
It permits a detailed report and self explanatory evaluation.

Monitoring and Evaluation is important due to the following reasons:

1. It helps to generate both quantitative and qualitative evidence about how much has been or has not been achieved.
2. It helps to examine the trend.
3. It helps in highlighting problems.
4. It shows early warning signs.
5. Corrective actions can be taken in time.

M&E helps to generate evidence of how much has been or has not been achieved and highlights problems showing early warning signs so that corrective actions can be taken timely and determine achievements of the results.

Important of M&E: M&E is very important because it helps the organization to measure the progress of the project and to know if the project has meet its intended target.

Monitoring and evaluation are critical factors in the accurate and efficient use of project resources.
Indeed, they make it possible to collect the data which makes it possible to plan strategies allowing to conceive and carry out the projects.
This collected data will then be used to appropriately distribute the resources of a project.

The importance of M&E:

1. setting goals and orienting goals to team members for clear understanding of purpose of project.
2. Monitoring progress of projects through collection of data
3. Evaluation of impact of project by measuring change.
4. Assessment and development of new ways of improving a project through feedback.
5. Helps in early identification and remedy of arising problems.

M&E is very important to complete your project successfully and for the better result, it help you not only to understand the project but even help project to work more efficiently with your team.

I love the creative use of phrases "Good" and "Meh"!

I think I am off to a very important course that will help me to effectively carry out M&E in future. I will also consider the process of pursuing this course for my M&E plan. Thank you FHI 360, thank you Philanthropy university.

With the introduction part, I already love the course. I believe M&E applies to all areas in organization day-to-day activities.

M&E helps managers to make informed decisions backed by data collected from surveys.

I agree with you, M&E, is so operational in all components or functions of an organisation

when I looked at the content of this course, I knew I was in the right Track to acquiring knowledge in operations management

• Monitoring and Evaluation has equal importance because if let us take an example of organization that has no M&E plan they will not be able to achieve their target in a proper or may face some difficulties.

• If a manager is not monitoring his or her employees he or she would be facing difficulties in measuring the performance.

• monitoring and evaluation are very important part of all process without it it is difficult to make important decisions.

THE IMPORTANCE OF M&E.
In order for us to understand the importance of M&E we must first appreciate the meaning of the term M&E.
Monitoring and evaluation are the two reasons for collecting and analysing the data of a project.
Monitoring is collecting data and using the information to adjust the project, while evaluation is comparing the result of the project with the project plans; and judging the success of the project. Monitoring may take place weekly, monthly, and quarterly. However, evaluation is known to be carry-out half-yearly or yearly.

Therefore, M&E keeps all stakeholders and or partners abreast of the progress of the project. It also helps to make a more informed decision and garnered deeper understanding base on lessons learned. It also foster more meaningful communications and help us to recognise and celebrate success.**

The importance of M&E can not be overemphasised. Planning is very important to the development of any project. it would go a long way to determine is a project is going to fail or succeed.
However, I believe that a lot need to be done to ensure that the planning designs are as simple as possible.

This module has given me a clear understanding of what M&E entails. It has enlightened me on the importance of M&E to an organization and in my role as an M&E manager in my current job.
Looking forward to develop a professional M&E plan

I feel M&E is very important and it is the backbone of every organisation's success and development. Even at individual level, it is good to do monitoring and evaluation.

The Importance of M&E:

Monitoring and evaluation are essential to any project or program. this process can be considered as complementary to the planning process; To ensure that the plan is going in the right way, that the work was carried out as planned, and that the desired results were obtained. Among the most important benefits of M&E are the following:

• M&E results in better transparency and accountability

  Because organizations track, analyze, and report on a project during the monitoring phase, there’s more transparency. Information is freely circulated and available to stakeholders, which gives them more input on the project.

• M&E helps organizations catch problems early

  Projects never go perfectly according to plan, but a well-designed M&E helps the project stay on track and perform well. M&E plans help define a project’s scope, establish interventions when things go wrong, and give everyone an idea of how those interventions affect the rest of the project. This way, when problems inevitably arise, a quick and effective solution can be implemented.

• M&E helps ensure resources are used efficiently

  Every project needs resources. How much cash is on hand determines things like how many people work on a project, the project’s scope, and what solutions are available if things get off course. The information collected through monitoring reveals gaps or issues, which require resources to address. Without M&E.

• M&E helps organizations learn from their mistakes

  Mistakes and failures are part of every organization. M&E provides a detailed blueprint of everything that went right and everything that went wrong during a project.

• M&E improves decision-making

  Data should drive decisions. M&E processes provide the essential information needed to see the big picture. After a project wraps up, an organization with good M&E can identify mistakes, successes, and things that can be adapted and replicated for future projects. Decision-making is then influenced by what was learned through past monitoring and evaluation.

• M&E helps organizations stay organized

  Every Organization need to develop methods to collect, distribute, and analyze information. Also requires organizations to decide on desired outcomes, how to measure success, and how to adapt as the project goes on, so those outcomes become a reality. A good M&E plan can solve all this issues

• M&E helps organizations replicate the best projects/programs

  Organizations don’t like to waste time on projects or programs that go nowhere or fail to meet certain standards. The benefits of M&E that we’ve described above – such as catching problems early, good resource management, and informed decisions – all result in information that ensures organizations replicate what’s working and let go of what’s not.

• M&E encourages innovation

  Monitoring and evaluation can help fuel innovative thinking and methods for data collection. While some fields require specific methods, others are open to more unique ideas.

• Every organization benefits from M&E

  While certain organizations can use more unique M&E tools, all organizations need some kind of monitoring and evaluation system. Whether it’s a small business, corporation, or government agency, all organizations need a way to monitor their projects and determine if they’re successful. Without strong M&E, organizations aren’t sustainable, they’re more vulnerable to failure, and they can lose the trust of stakeholders.

A monitoring and evaluation plan allows to define a framework for monitoring the activities, to measure the project indicators. It allows to anticipate in time possible problems and to solve them. Finally, it allows to say to what extent the changes observed are attributable to the project's interventions.

The Importance of M&E can not be over emphasised.

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

Monitoring and evaluation can be used to demonstrate that program efforts have had a measurable impact on expected outcomes and have been implemented effectively.

Monitoring and evaluation helps with identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. It is critical for developing objective conclusions regarding the extent to which programs can be judged a “success”.

Monitoring and evaluation forms the basis of strengthening understanding around the many multi-layered factors underlying violence against women, women’s experiences with such violence, and the effectiveness of the response at the service provider, community, national and international level.

Monitoring and evaluation are critical for building a strong, global evidence base around violence against women and for assessing the wide, diverse range of interventions being implemented to address it

M&E help to know how the project is progressing in order to see how to improve it. So, measuring a project requires an activity implementation schedule with the required indicators to know how well it is being achieved.

Le suivi et l'évaluation permettent sont très important pour disposer des données necessaires sur le projet. Le suivi permettra d'avoir les informations necerraires pour prendre en cas de besoin des mesures correctives. L'évaluation à l'organisation de démontrer les succès du projet, de savoir si l'obejectif fixé par le projet a été atteint ou pas.

I can notice that, one of the main questions to design a M&E plan is what /how to measure?
Are there some steps to follow in doing so?

Rather the accuracy of the indicators chosen for measuring, i think

by Using M&E, the project teams can follow their goals, objectives and can manage easily their projects

If you say that someone is being unrealistic, you mean that they do not recognize the truth about a situation, especially about the difficulties involved in something they want to achieve
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M&E is of importance to individual and organizations owing to the fact that its like a backbone to the success of any project that will be undertaken, tracking progress and achieving the aims and objectives for which a project is undertaken.

Before we collect data, we should identify the questions want to answers, then identify the tool appropriate to collect data because there are many tool to collect the data like "interviews, focus group discussions, observation, photography, video, surveys, questionnaires and case studies... Etc)

Before we collect data, we should identify the questions want to answers, then identify the tool appropriate to collect data because there are many tool to collect the data like "interviews, focus group discussions, observation, photography, video, surveys, questionnaires and case studies... Etc)

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
is used to assess the performance of projects, institutions and programmes set up by governments, international organisations and NGOs. Its goal is to improve current and future management of outputs, outcomes and impact. Monitoring is a continuous assessment of programmes based on early detailed information on the progress or delay of the ongoing assessed activities. An evaluation is an examination concerning the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact of activities in the light of specified objectives.

Monitoring and evaluation processes can be managed by the donors financing the assessed activities, by an independent branch of the implementing organization, by the project managers or implementing team themselves and/or by a private company. The credibility and objectivity of monitoring and evaluation reports depend very much on the independence of the evaluators. Their expertise and independence is of major importance for the process to be successful.

The importance of M&E is considered as organizing your project by knowing every particle about it such as activities , people involved , targets and riks and assumptions.It is the best way to follow up your project by. Without M&E , your project might fall down or the targets might not be achieved. You perhaps will be out of budget if you did not set a M&E plan.

The importance of M&E is considered as organizing your project by knowing every particle about it such as activities , people involved , targets and riks and assumptions.It is the best way to follow up your project by. Without M&E , your project might fall down or the targets might not be achieved. You perhaps will be out of budget if you did not set a M&E plan.

The importance of M&E is considered as organizing your project by knowing every particle about it such as activities , people involved , targets and riks and assumptions.It is the best way to follow up your project by. Without M&E , your project might fall down or the targets might not be achieved. You perhaps will be out of budget if you did not set a M&E plan.

Monitoring and evaluation are critical for building a strong, global evidence base around violence against women and for assessing the wide, diverse range of interventions being implemented to address it. At the global level, it is a tool for identifying and documenting successful programmes and approaches and tracking progress toward common indicators across related projects. Monitoring and evaluation forms the basis of strengthening understanding around the many multi-layered factors underlying violence against women, women’s experiences with such violence, and the effectiveness of the response at the service provider, community, national and international level.

This is critically important because while the global evidence base on the proportion of women having ever experienced various forms of abuse is strong, evidence on what kinds of strategies are effective in preventing such violence and offering adequate support to victims and survivors is still weak. This is especially relevant in resource poor areas, where difficult decisions need to be made with respect to funding priorities.

The empowerment and autonomy of women and the improvement of their political, social, economic, and health status is a highly important end in itself. In addition, it is essential for the achievement of sustainable development

importance of monitoring and evaluation include the following
it provides the only consolidated source of information show causing project progress.

it allows actors to learn from each others experiences building on expertise and knowledge.

it provides abasis for questioning and testing assumptions.

it provides amore robust basis for raising and infiuencing policy

M&E is clearly an essential aspect of every project. Aside from establishing how any project will be designed and implemented, it also helps to let project managers determine what will be measured, including the overall success of the project.

About all what u earn i think that M&N is very important for a project

All peuple have to know something aboutM&N

Plan Your project is a chance to succeed it

Good to read it, to understand the Good project.

M & E is important because it helps my team to coordinate roles and responsibilities. It makes sure everyone knows exactly what needs to be done and why? It also helps to gain deeper understanding of the communities and people we support by providing solutions to deliver services that have a serious positive impact to the community.
It also helps in identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. It also provides the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement programmes and projects and to allocate and re-allocate resources in better ways to avoid misuse of funds. It also provide detailed information on assessed activities and where improvements can be made.

M & E is important because it helps my team to coordinate roles and responsibilities. It makes sure everyone knows exactly what needs to be done and why? It also helps to gain deeper understanding of the communities and people we support by providing solutions to deliver services that have a serious positive impact to the community.
It also helps in identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. It also provides the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement programmes and projects and to allocate and re-allocate resources in better ways to avoid misuse of funds. It also provide detailed information on assessed activities and where improvements can be made.

M & E is important because it helps my team to coordinate roles and responsibilities. It makes sure everyone knows exactly what needs to be done and why? It also helps to gain deeper understanding of the communities and people we support by providing solutions to deliver services that have a serious positive impact to the community.
It also helps in identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources. It also provides the necessary data to guide strategic planning, to design and implement programmes and projects and to allocate and re-allocate resources in better ways to avoid misuse of funds. It also provide detailed information on assessed activities and where improvements can be made.

• Developing tools and methods for measurement
• Figuring out which of your team members should collect, manage, analyze, and use data

importance of monitoring and evaluation include the following
it provides the only consolidated source of information show causing project progress.

it allows actors to learn from each others experiences building on expertise and knowledge.

it provides abasis for questioning and testing assumptions.

it provides amore robust basis for raising and infiuencing policy

M and E puts into perspective how a project will flow, not only that, it will show indicators of what to look into to if there are any problems or shot falls.
M and E also allows project administration to be clear including roles of the people involved well labelled out for efficiency and accountability

Logframes are very important to planing , monitoring, and evaluating your project. It is not acceptable to implement a project without a scientific mechanism that helps you make your assumptions and decisions according to studies, proofs, and data.

1. Learn the skill of collecting project information and data regularly, interpret and analyze the information in relation to the objectives, aims and mission of the project to enhance an informed decision making.
2. Learn the skill of report writing ,addressing the need of the donors.

this sounds interesting am looking forward to be equipped and become an expert on M&E

The knowledge concerning monitoring is on making follow up on the specific activities planned.
The knowledge concerning evaluation is on making decisions on the specific information collected from ongoing activities.

it enables you plan appropriately for your project before it is too late

Great Introductory Course

Monitoring and Evaluation helps project managers in keeping track the implementation of the projects and its prudence in the utilization of the resources. It provides decision makers with a strategy to plan for sustainability of the projects and guidance for future endeavors

Empowering women living in desperate poverty in rural East Africa promotes in-country development from the bottom up. Women become involved in grass roots movements and advocate for far-reaching social and economic changes in their own country. The borrowers' priorities for the use of their profits are: better nutrition, healthcare and paying school fees for their children. WMI provides outreach in all of these areas by empowering women with options to provide better care for their families.

it is important that it checks the progress of our project, it helps in distribution of the roles and responsibilities also helps to provide evidence to the donor for transparency and accountability

Yes of course, within these just few steps I have learnt that M& E Process is the most important part ;
to achieve our project targets,
to run the project effectively and efficiently,
to create M&E plan prior implementing the project
Also to finally by evaluating the in and outs of the projects as on process

I understand how important monitoring and evaluation is in a project, they allow informed decisions to be made