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Hello! Nice to meet you all,
In this module 1, I have learned effectively how is important M&E plan when we design the project.

Can we employ both of these tools to measure: one is number of loans given and second the number of businesses that was started?

Hello! Nice to meet you all,
In this module 1, I have learned effectively how is important M&E plan when we design the project.

Can we employ both of these tools to measure: one is number of loans given and second the number of businesses that was started?

the topic is excellent

M&E is important because it will help in monitoring and identifying whether the project is going right or wrong and what needs to be modified or added for the success of the project.

The most important feature of M&E is that this helps us to set our goals. By monitoring and evaluation we can know the impact of the project, the inputs , the outputs and of course the outcome. We can measure success, we can know how well the resources are used and how well the beneficiaries are benefitted. By evaluation we can know , whether we achieved our goal, whether we faced any risks and could it be avoided,

the GOOD program was clear outcome and kind of datas they will use for M&E, but different while we looking to MEH project, I think both how much saving and micro loan datas can be used for M&E, with clear indicators.

the GOOD program was clear outcome and kind of datas they will use for M&E, but different while we looking to MEH project, I think both how much saving and micro loan datas can be used for M&E, with clear indicators.

I will be glad to help MEH to create its plan of M&E.

firstly need to understand the goal of the project and set the clear goal to be achieved through project implementation. Then decide on means or ways to measure the progress and decide on tools to collect the required data.

Risks and assumptions
Identifying risks and assumptions serves to assess whether the Goals and Activities proposed are realistic and achievable in the given time frame and within the given available human and financial resources.
In this context, a risk is defined as an uncertain threat that, in case of occurring, 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 successful completion of the Goal or Activity.
In order to avoid repetition and redundancy, risks and assumptions should be defined at two levels: general and specific level.

General risks and assumptions can be either related to the overall implementation of the Roadmap or common to all Goals included in the Roadmap. Specific risks and assumptions will be related to a concrete Activity, i.e. a particular risk that could hinder the successful implementation of a concrete Activity or an assumption that is key to the implementation of a specific Activity. For instance, a specific assumption for the Activity "establishing an Authorised Economic Operators Scheme" is that incentives granted to AEOs are enough to motivate private traders to invest in the time and resources to get the certification.

If described negatively, an assumption can become a risk. On the contrary, if defined in positive terms, a risk can be transformed into an assumption. Thus, it is very important to pay attention to redundancy.
Assumptions that were considered in the form of risks do not need to be noted again and vice-versa. Similarly, risks and assumptions that were defined at general level, do not need to be mentioned again at specific level. If resistance to change is a major risk for the overall completion of the Roadmap's Goals, it would be also risk for the different Activities considered.

by looking at the examples, there's plenty of importances and advantages for M&E but the most important is to know where are we? what progress are we making? is there any wrong choices and decisions that needs to be corrected or replaced? what are we doing good? and how can we progress? and did we succeed or fail? that's the main questions that will be answered through the M&E plan which means we'll have a 99% chances to be successful

Hi everyone,

M&E plans are important because if an organization wants to have control over their progress it requires following some steps such as defining services, indicators and impacts. In this case, the funding, in some way, is conditionated to data availability. In other words, they must create indicator to follow up their achievements with the MEH program.

M&E is too important for measuring of success and failure of your project. if there is no M&E we don't know how the intervention effect the society or community.
thus, in any type of project the M&E plan should be designed to track the progress of your project or activities.

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Monitoring and evaluation is essential for any project or program. Through this process, organizations collect and analyze data to determine if a project / program has achieved its goals. Monitoring will begin immediately and will continue for the entire duration of the project. The evaluation follows, assessing how well the program ran. Every organization needs an M & E system.

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Very interesting scenarios...in to learn how we can help MEH to have M&E Plan

This topic is very important cause its help M&E Officers to keep track of project activities.

it provides a way to assess the crucial link between implementers and beneficiaries on the ground and decision-makers;
it adds to the retention and development of institutional memory;
it provides a more robust basis for raising funds and influencing policy.

So generally, M&E give a very good process for Goal any business or person undertakes. One has to know what their primary goal is as well as all the steps required to achieve it. All of that coupled with consistent reviews of progress would ensure Success.

M&E is an important part of a Project intervention, through routine data collection and evaluations. It provides evidence of activities (indicators) progress, and data could be used to make decisions about project interventions, whether there is a need to change / improve activity implementations. M&E also promote accountability, through ongoing reporting, it shows the donor how its fund was uterlise.

I appreciate all the tools that we are provided with and can use for future projects!

I appreciate all the tools that are provided, which we can use for future projects.

Monitoring and evaluating is vital to taking the pulse of the organization in reaching success; based on the organization’s goals. How will you know if you are making progress, going in the wrong direction, or going in circles if there is no monitoring and evaluating? Those initial questions are things to monitor and evaluate success or whether the organization is heading towards success versus failure. Properly developed items to monitor can show an unintentional change in direction so they can shift before things get too far off track. M&E show how your organization is performing or succeeding. When evaluated as soon as practical changes can be made to modify the result.

I agree. This will also identify if the actions taken have generated the intended result and growth opportunities for greater success.

le suivi sert à collecter les données tout au long de la mise en œuvre du projet. les montants d'argents que chaque femmes pourraient contribuer, les banques où elles iront faire leurs épargnes, les conditions imposées par les banques.
l'évaluation permettra de vérifier si les objectifs, la méthode utilisé et les résultats ont été atteint. l'évaluation permettra de voir à quel point et sur quel point le projet a réussi.

it helps to come up with the relavant strategy to collect data.
it also helps in coming up with alternatives solutions to the problem

To make precisely performance result and progress of the project, it is necassary to use Monitoring and Evaluation.

GOOD projects is well paced for Monitoring and Evaluation of their project activities and now.MEH has along way to complete all its process in Monitoring and evaluation cycle of their project.

M&E is very important. A good plan of M&E permit to have a way for provides a guideline. Also, with to this plan, it is easier to know if you succeeded or not, to write better the success stories, to redefine some points to better succeed where you would have probably failed before.

to track the progress of the project and assess whether the resources are used effectively

M&E helps us to identify the gaps in our project and also understand if we are doing the right thing from the start of any activity of the project.

I absolutely agree with you.

M&E is very crucial and Important for all Programming Levels and provides a detailed right to know step by step of the progress of the project and documents of the project terms Thorough M&E documents allow organizations/ Agencies to pinpoint facing difficulties

monitoring and evaluation helps project managers in keeping track the implementation of the loans they give out and its prudence in the utilization of the resources.

This is a great beginning to learn about importance about M&E using the GOOD and MEH case scenario. I am elated to be here.

To make more efficient use of resources. To draw up a plan and properly understand the process of any project. It is divided into 2 stages monitoring that consists of data collection and analysis and evaluation that is to see the results

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I can't wait to see my results on Module 2. Any one with some questions on module 2?

GOOD really have a great plan for their project and though MEH are still figuring things out, they only need to identify their project objectives which will help them create an M & E plan

I know that M&Es are important in everyday activities of an organization but not to this extent, this course is showing how much more it is.

L'importance est collecter continuellement les données(informations) sur un projet ou une activité durant toute sa période d'existence ensuite évaluer l'impacte, c'est à dire voir si on se diriges vers nos objectif, à quelle distance on se trouve par rapport a nos objectif et qu'est ce qui marche et qui ne marche pas, que doit on faire arriver facilement à nos objectifs.

its very important for the M&E in project for the purpose of the evaluation and monitoring to reach the outcome of the project.

M&E is important because it will help in monitoring and identifying whether the project is going right or wrong and what needs to be modified or added for the success of the project.

M&E is important because it will help in monitoring and identifying whether the project is going right or wrong and what needs to be modified or added for the success of the project.

• To help the organization communicate and work together towards common objectives.
• To ensure that valuable data is properly collected, stored and used.
• To organize the many roles and responsibilities that M&E requires.

I think that every project need M&E Plan

This is really getting interesting, cant wait for the plan for MEH to be produced

does project run without m&e

I understood more about the difference between the two projects, GOOD project and MEH project.

The importance of M&E is to collect information about a project in order to measure the progress of the activities and to see if the project activities have achieved the project objectives.

THE IMPORTANCCE OF M&E CANNOT BE OVER EMPHASIED BECAUSE IT HELPS TRACK YOUR DAILY ,WEEKLY AND MONTHLY PERFORMANCE BY COLLECTING DATAS AND ANALYSING THE DATA GIVING ROOM FOR EASY EVALUATION.

This is interesting, I am enjoying this model.

the comparison between two projects bring a clear picture of the importance of creating monitoring and evaluation plan in the organisation in order to facilitate the execution and fantastic achievement of yeaning goals of the project in the organisation. As the learner, use the MEH to help to create m&e plan enable me to get clearly m&e is created.

IT PROVIDES THE ONLY CONSOLIDATED SOURCE OF INFORMATION SHOWCASING PROJECT PROGRESS.. IT ALLOWS ACTORS TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER `s experience building on expertise and knowlodge.

The monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is critical to the project's success. It assists the organization in making plans, determining what they are doing, and archiving what they have at the end of the project. It will be beneficial to know what went well and what went wrong.

M& E is important in three ways. Through M & E, data is generated that: 1) would help program implementers gain some lessons for future projects; b) would indicate whether the project has accomplished what it intended to achieve; and 3) would show whether the project was worthwhile the financial and workforce allocated.

still learning

Comment annoncer les risques et hypothèses ?

Thanks. Just going through the first module. M&E seems interesting

M&E training should be offered to everyone in a project executing organisation irrespective of their individual duties

The project development is a tricky and logical, it is designed in a more logical and sequential manners, which is connected closely. it is essential to know more about where is the project is going is it in right direction or deviating from its objectives and goal. Thus M&E is a process that give whether the project is on track or not. M&E is an integral and important component of the project cycle that measures, collect the information and gather the relevant data to find out and to measure the project level of success. To further deep in the knowledge and its logic lets learn M&E with more specific and robust manners.

Practical issues being discussed makes the topic more interesting

How to create a coherent and realistic plan?

for better implementation

What is most suitable time to start m&e?

M&E can play a crucial role for effective project management and learning. For monitoring, with a decent M&E Plan and system (the databases to collect routine progress/ output data, supplementary systems such as beneficiary interviews/ field monitoring visits to track project outcomes ), it can provide information needed to make timely management decisions with regards to the process. progress and strategy, the appropriate choice of inputs or resources to where and how much, etc. The M&E system should also be reinforced with approaches and methods that facilitate process learning throughout the lifetime of the project. For example, by applying participatory M&E techniques, the project can formatively access its progress and relevance and make improvements. On the other hand, evaluation can provide information about the project success or otherwise for the intended beneficiaries at intended level of success (objectives and outcomes). It also helps the program decision makers to decide replicability of the intervention in other beneficiaries with similar context and issues.

thanks on my view these two project can be monitored and evaluated but GOOD is easier to manage than MEH because its objective is simple

Monitoring and evaluation in a project is very important because they guide the team that the decisions to be taken during the implementation of the project as well as the permanent monitoring of the indactors helps the decision makers to have a clear and focused idea. of the project

1 assigning responsibilities
2 helps to keep you om track and make sure that the data collected is useful for decision making
3 helps to think through all steps that make up your monitoring and evaluation system for instance objectives, indicators, data gathering techniques.

The most important feature of M&E is that this helps us to set our goals. By monitoring and evaluation we can know the impact of the project, the inputs , the outputs and of course the outcome. We can measure success, we can know how well the resources are used and how well the beneficiaries are benefitted. By evaluation we can know , whether we achieved our goal, whether we faced any risks and could it be avoided,

• list iteMonitoring and evaluation in a project is very important because they guide the team that the decisions to be taken during the implementation of the project as well as the permanent monitoring of the indactors helps the decision makers to have a clear and focused idea. of the projectm

Halo,
Am so excited about this topic...am so eager to learn how to develop an M&E plan so that i can improve programs in our organization.
Thank you.

I love the way the concept of M&E was explained using real-life project experiences.

Riks and assumptions are very important for a good logframe

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It helps to monitor project, measure progress, it helps to get rich information for annual report. it gives information on how best to measure progress, and develope M&E Plan.

Truly, the M&E is crucial for M&E practitioners and project implementers such as project design, project monitoring, and project evaluation.

Monitoring the progress of any project is critically important for the success of the project. There must be some clearly set parameters for the monitoring purpose with the methods to collect required data for monitoring purpose. Monitoring must be in place always as the project goes on. Evaluation is the comparison between the actual development and planned standard. If there is any deviation, need to take corrective measure to correct it.

good discussion

m&e is nice feild

M&E is to help you see the risk vs. the reward and make a decision based on that

Well said.. I totally agree with you

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MEH must know know its goals and come up with a plan on how many girls should benefit from this project and also come up with the actual amount which each girl can borrow at a given time. Meh should also collect information on what the borrowed money will be used for and how it will be repaid. If it is for income generating projects MEH should collect information through follow ups to check if the projects are progressing well and also if the projects changes livelihoods of the beneficiaries.

M&E helps in project conception or design and also in it's implementation and ensures that project activities tie with the objectives of the project to bring about the outcomes desired by that project intervention.

The MEH project should set a goal which will specify how much will be borrowed to each girl, clearly state the interest rate, and document the reason for the taking the loan. In addition to that, the start date for when the loan is issued, payment duration and source of income for paying the loan should also be well documented. Thank you.

Thank you Hellen for this contribution, am in total agreement with you. Since this is an income generating project, a smart goal must be set, with consistent follow-ups to generate result.

ok, lets do it

I already like the starting of this course ! : )

Monitoring and evaluation are essential to any project or program. Through this process, organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if a project/program has fulfilled its goals. Monitoring begins right away and extends through the duration of the project. Evaluation comes after and assesses how well the program performed. Every organization should have an M&E system in place. Here are ten reasons why:
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. A good monitoring system ensures no one is left in the dark. This transparency leads to better accountability. With information so available, organizations need to keep everything above board. It’s also much harder to deceive stakeholders.
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, it wouldn’t be clear what areas need to be a priority. Resources could easily be wasted in one area that isn’t the source of the issue. Monitoring and evaluation helps prevent that waste.
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. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems. Often, organizations can learn more from their mistakes than from their successes.
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
Developing a good M&E plan requires a lot of organization. That process in itself is very helpful to an organization. It has to develop methods to collect, distribute, and analyze information. Developing M&E plans 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. Good organizational skills benefit every area of an organization.
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. As an example, fields that have traditionally relied on standardized tools like questionnaires, focus groups, interviews, and so on can branch out to video and photo documentation, storytelling, and even fine arts. Innovative tools provide new perspectives on data and new ways to measure success.
M&E encourages diversity of thought and opinions
With monitoring and evaluation, the more information the better. Every team member offers an important perspective on how a project or program is doing. Encouraging diversity of thought and exploring new ways of obtaining feedback enhance the benefits of M&E. With M&E tools like surveys, they’re only truly useful if they include a wide range of people and responses. In good monitoring and evaluation plans, all voices are important.
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.

M&E provides a detailed blueprint of everything that went right and everything that went wrong during a project. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems. Often, organizations can learn more from their mistakes than from their successes

M&E provides a detailed blueprint of everything that went right and everything that went wrong during a project. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems. Often, organizations can learn more from their mistakes than from their successes

M&E provides a detailed blueprint of everything that went right and everything that went wrong during a project. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems. Often, organizations can learn more from their mistakes than from their successes. This is my opinion.

M&E provides a detailed blueprint of everything that went right and everything that went wrong during a project. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems. Often, organizations can learn more from their mistakes than from their successes. This is my opinion.

M&E it is important because helps to 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.

M&E also 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. Thorough M&E documents allow organizations to pinpoint specific failures, as opposed to just guessing what caused problems.

And furthermore M&E is important because
it provides a basis for questioning and testing assumptions,
it provides a means for agencies seeking to learn from their experiences and to incorporate them into policy and practice,
it provides a way to assess the crucial link between implementer s and beneficiaries on the ground and decision-makers

This is a good comparison of two projects being carried out in the same country/area with assessing the type of data for MEH as what I would think of as a crucial initial phase towards drawing up an M&E plan.

monitoring and evaluation is an important tool for identifying and documenting successful programs.
M&E forms the basis of strengthening understanding around the many multilayered factors.
M&E tracks implementation and outputs systematically.