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I am glad to help MEH prepare their M&E Plan while learning in the process.

IMPORTANCE OF M&E

• Helps to set clear goals for the project and eliminate redundancies

• It also helps identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources.

• Helps planners, managers, policy makers etc. to make informed decisions on project or program operations.

• It results in better transparency and accountability.

• Problems are detected and dealt with, earlier before making huge impact on the project/program.

• It encourages Innovation, in search for new ways to deal with problems.

• It helps organizations to replicate best projects and stay on track.

I think that for the second company to succeed, it should first set clear objectives, such as determining the exact number of young girls to whom it wants to lend money for the creation of microenterprises, and plan the number of jobs that these microenterprises will generate in the long term in order to evaluate the reduction of the unemployment rate in the said locality with the advent of this project.

It was very helpful for knowing the importance of M&E planning.

Surely MEH can develop their M & E plan. They just need to identify the indicators they want to measure and outcomes that will be achieved. Im glad that the course will help to understand developing M & E plan.

-It gives the insight of the project progress, with constant monitoring and evaluation its easy to understand if the goals of the project are being met.
-helps in making decisions, from the data collected about activities is easy to make decision that will affect the project to meet its intended goals

very beneficial course ,Good idea of learning by example (Project) by this I will be able to understand M&E easily. looking forward to learn more and master M&E.
thanks

Am excited to be taking this course

I have enjoyed module 1

M & E plan as I can see is very important for evvaluating and improving the outcomes of a particular project. What are the components of and M and E plan?

M&E helps implementers of a program or intervention to:

• make well informed decisions bordering on the program operations and service delivery with respect to the objectives' evidence;
• ensure the most effective and efficient use of resources is achieved;
• objective assessment of the extent to which the program or intervention is having or has had the desired impact, areas of effectiveness, and where there is possible need for adjustments, review or corrections; and
• meet organisational reporting and other requirements and convince the donors that their investment is worthwhile or the need to consider other options or approaches.

Monitoring and evaluation are important because by using them, the organization can have a better order of their plan, and also how they are going to measure a plan. M&E helps for organization for the collection of data.

Monitoring and Evaluation is a system that allows us to see if the Project has been implemented according to the way it was planned. in addition, it even tells us if the project goals have been met and they could be measured through indicators. Moreover, Evaluation on the ther hand takes place at the end of the project while monitoring goes with the proect functions

this module has been great has it is a gate opening for the important of M&E activities especially when measuring the extent of the activity done for the case of GOOD and MEH, for me am delighted to really learn hw that M&E plan does that wonder

Regarding the second project as it was stated in the write up, they are lack monitoring and evaluation plan which would help them know their precise goals but they really need to think about the small amount of loans they intend to give out to the girls and want kind of business can the small amount of loan can actually finance to avoid debts. MEH should also teach the girls on how to write a business plan to help structure their business and also know the risks involve taking loans likewise. MEH require a team of expertise to actually help actualize this dream of the girls because it takes alot to take a loan. If am to suggest the measures to MEH, the following stated below could actually help them achieve their goals which are;

1. Targeted audience
2. Amount of loan to give out
3. Type of small business
4. Method of repayment

this kind of lesson show us the reallity and in this case it has a lot of important facts that we need to understand.

this kind of lesson show us the reallity and in this case it has a lot of important facts that we need to understand.

this kind of lesson show us the reallity and in this case it has a lot of important facts that we need to understand.

The importance of M&E is to give indication of weather the tools set up for the project will be suitable to give feedback on the progress of the project.

Monitoring and evaluation help gauge the performance of the implementation of activities. And gives insight for managers to make informed decision on steering the project.

Constructive contribution. In your way, what data collection instrument will be best use to gather data for such a project.

Greetings from The Gambia.
My name is Sadou Bah, I work as a Data Manager for the National AIDS Secretariat.

The M&E is very important on cycle project. It help menager to defin roles and responsabilities of each fileld. It help measuring our progress and results.
Monoring means collecting project information regularly to measure the progress of your project or activity. This helps to track performance over time and to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of projects and the efficient use of resources.

Evaluation
Evaluation measures how well the project activities have achieved the project’s objectives and how much changes in outcomes can be directly linked to a project’s interventions. Together, we will refer to monitoring and evaluation as M&E

The M&E is very important on cycle project. It help menager to defin roles and responsabilities of each fileld. It help measuring our progress and results.
Monoring means collecting project information regularly to measure the progress of your project or activity. This helps to track performance over time and to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of projects and the efficient use of resources.
Evaluation measures how well the project activities have achieved the project’s objectives and how much changes in outcomes can be directly linked to a project’s interventions. Together, we will refer to monitoring and evaluation as M&E

The M&E is very important on cycle project. It help menager to defin roles and responsabilities of each fileld. It help measuring our progress and results.
Monoring means collecting project information regularly to measure the progress of your project or activity. This helps to track performance over time and to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of projects and the efficient use of resources.
Evaluation measures how well the project activities have achieved the project’s objectives and how much changes in outcomes can be directly linked to a project’s interventions. Together, we will refer to monitoring and evaluation as M&E

Monitoring and evaluation is important because it allows you to measure how resources are being used. It also helps you determine if the resources are being used effectively.

Makes sense

To have a framework in order to move forward

To have a framework in order to move forward and be sucessful

To have a framework in order to move forward and be sucessful

MEH seems to not only have issues on what to measure or how to measure their progress, it seems that they do not have a clearly defined project goal as well. GOOD's goal is clearly stated, "to open 1200 new savings accounts for girls in 34 Kenyan villages in the next 6 months". Whereas, for MEH it is pretty vague with no quantifiable attributes within the stated goal.

Helps to measure the progress of your project...and keeping track

Importance of monitoring and evaluation..it helps to measure the projects performance and allows to correct future mistakes

Importance assumptions based target..without correct baseline data

Data management is really important..because this will show clear picture does the project achieved its goals and objectives or not

To know what is goals are
To get clear data about project

This is my 1st post for M&E module 1 .. Just to understand how it works

The big difference between GOOD & MEH in terms of financial risk is major; If GOOD fail it will not harm the beneficiary, whereas if the MEH beneficiary fails, microfinance company & beneficiary will be in a financial loses

M&E is important when starting a project to help measure the output, progress and wether the project is satysifying its initial objective.

It allows to avoid the tunnel effect and to better prepare the annual report of its activities as well as the final report
This course is an excellent course delivered in an educational and methodical manner. It is very interestant

what is an M&E plan?

M&E is important for any organization because

1. It helps you set clear goals for your organizations project
2. Helps you to know how you will collect data for your ongoing projects, and also determine how the project is going
3. Also help you gather data on how the project is going, its success and effectiveness'
4. It also helps you plan for making the project better and more effective for the beneficiaries of the project

I couldn't agree more. M&E is important for any organization because it helps you map out a plan, how to go about it, helps you track the progress of that plan and in the end, helps you understand what went right and wrong which helps you to make a better plan following the one that was in place

Hi there. I have just enrolled on the course and wondering if there are others who have also just started. Am very excited to get started on a formal learning programme - have done M&E planning and implementation as part of my work in various capacities, but without benefit of a structured learning programme.

Monitoring and evaluation helps track project performance, identify failures and identify the most valuable and efficient use of resources. Helps to highlight problems and make decisions on the best alternatives. It provides timely and frequent information

Mornitoring is essential for a project so that it can be able to collect data for project being implemented.

Evalution - assists in evaluating the success of the program during and at the end of the project.

Having a clear M& E Plan leads to a succesful project implementation

M&E is very important in any project. without M&E we cant not gauge impact and efficiency and effectiveness of any project activities.

Helps individuals and organizations involved with any type of projects to assess if progress desired is being achieved

From this section, I've learnt that M&E is important to monitor project progress, evaluate its impact, and produce project reports that can inform subsequent projects.

In my experience, organizations build teams to design the best possible project to get access to grants and external funding; and sometimes the best project is only the best because it states that the outputs and deliverables are way more extraordinary than the reality allows. And I don't think that is entirely wrong, sometimes great projects start by dreaming big.

And I think the reason why M&E is being increasingly considered as an important aspect of the project, is precisely to tight the objectives to reality by enssuring that everything we "promise" is actually achievable. Also, M&E is important to help teams to understand the reality of the implementation and also, to keep the data and tools to help new members of the team to understand what is happening with the project.

This last part is really important, specially in countries where the rotation of personnel is really high and sometimes a project ends up depending of one individual insteand of one organization.

VERY INTERESTING COURSE

The importance of M&E is in the help that it gives us to design an M&E plan which defines goals and the way we are going to achieve them.It gives us the opportunity to measure the project progress, to review and adjust the project according the ressources we have for the project, and being able to give a feedback of the effectiveness and the efficiente use of the project ressources.

The M&E course is such an important area that suit workers, organisations and development partners to measure and compare the extent to which the project goal is reflecting to the desired aims and objectives thereby indicating certain milestones at a given period of time. Such indicators or milestone will tell and inform the organisation on the needs to improve or adjust to attain the project goals

The M&E course is such an important area that suit workers, organisations and development partners to measure and compare the extent to which the project goal is reflecting to the desired aims and objectives thereby indicating certain milestones at a given period of time. Such indicators or milestone will tell and inform the organisation on the needs to improve or adjust to attain the project goals

Looking at the two scenarios of GOOD and MEH project I come to realized how the best an organization run a project with an M&E plan and success, also learned that a project without good M&E plan is bound to fail.

The main purpose of the M & E plan is to put in place a guide to inform the management of the overall process of evaluating and reporting progress towards achieving project outcomes. It also provides guidance as to what to evaluate, what information is needed, how/who can collect such information and when data collection can be done. Thus, any organization needs to develop a M & E plan before starting project implementation. Doing so will enable the organization to plan ahead of time and data collection activities that may be needed to be done such as baseline survey. Overall, a proper M & E plan contributes to the effectiveness of the project implementation by ensuring that appropriate and comparable data will be collected on a regular and timely basis as well as efficiently within allocated budget.

The importance of M&E:-

1. In terms of any projects, We just need to understand the targets of our project which is measurable in the sense of indicators. We should monitor the target achievement. Monitoring of progress of any project, In this condition M&E play a vital role.
2. With help of M&E, the Operational team can easily assess the project's effectiveness and efficiency.

M&E assist every planner to assess the inputs functions towards the final product. This assessment helps to note how well or otherwise the desired impact is being met.

M&E assist every planner to assess the inputs functions towards the final product. This assessment helps to note how well or otherwise the desired impact is being met.

I love the topic, it's really what i have been looking for designing an M&E plan for the micro-finance project as my area of work.

Module 1 clearly explains the importance of M&E through the key terms and 2 examples of fictional project. For 1st project, they have a fantastic plan. So, they can track the project performance and evaluate that how the project activities change beneficiaries life. But, 2nd project does not have a M&E plan, which fails to achieve the goals and objectives.

we do know that MEH have a minimum service of secretary that enable the organization to mention the activity made. Then there is still hope to make a reconstitution of datas in order to create an M&E plan.

Looking at the two scenarios of GOOD and MEH project I come to realized how the best an organization run a project with an M&E plan and success, also learned that a project without good M&E plan is bound to fail.

I am so excited about this course and I'm ready to learn from helping prepare the M&E for MEH

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.

tools provide new perspectives on data and new ways to measure success.
M&E encourages diversity of thought and opinions

Helps the project manager to make right decision

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) help those involved with any type of project to assess if the progress desired is being achieved. For project executors (i.e., a company Community Relations Team, a company/NGO partnership, or a company foundation), M&E can improve management.

It's good starting with a good M&E Plan that can hightlight what's wrong, for being able to catch it and make chages.
The plan will permit to know :

• the goal of the project ;

• how to measure progress ;

• plan to collect information ;

• how will the outcomes of the project.

Yes, GOOD is somewhere, and it's clear that the two projects are both focused on girls though with different needs. GOOD girls need savings accounts meaning they have established money inlets whereas MEH girls need money to start businesses. Therefore, MEH will need to keep records of loans given out and to whom, businesses established, their outputs in terms of profits, and then decide on how much should be paid for how long in order to cover the loan.

Monitoring and evaluation helps monitor progress and decision making

M&E helps in measuring the progress and the impact of the project

The topic was very informative nicely introduced.

The GOOD and the MEH cases represents two extreme planning and project preparedness scenarios. The GOOD project has a clear framework. Reality in terms of financial, time and human resources is adequately presented and can be monitored. On the other side MEH is still a wish and a speculation. There is need for members to sit, envision and put the vision on wheels (good plan)

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My name is Idiris from Somalia. I am taking the complete modules of the course. Is there anyone interested in that?

If ''yes'' please let's work together to succeed. Thank you very much.

Best wishes,
Idiris

The importance of M&E will help us to achieve the successfully our project.

Monitoring and evaluation helps M&E experts to monitor different types of projects or businesses to ensure that they succeed.I believe that if all the steps in the M&E plan are followed no project or business can fail.Evaluation is also helps us to our challenges,successes and failures.It also helps us formulate ways to tackle the challenges,risks and failures.

Hello, My Name is Ali and I am new to M&E. I would like to get familiar with this concept to wide my chance to find a better job

I am taking this course because I have no experience on M&E and I want to find better job .

By the time I finish this course ((expected time to finish June 1st, I want to be able to to M&E position.

To my knowledge, the M&E helps too much. so the most important is, what is the best tools for the good M&E

M&E enables us to do prior planning to attain our set goals in agiven time frame

Monitoring and evaluation is important because it helps in the tracking and measuring of daily activities of all projects.
Monitoring and evaluation also helps overseers to confirm if the established projects are achieving the set goals and objectives.

This sounds interesting, I can't wait to learn more

I think that a project without M&E is doomed to failure. Ms project software allows you to plan and follow up with a baseline but a knowledge of the educator's questions is necessary for a good follow-up in the background.

M & E plan will let us know exactly what to measure, how to measure, how to collect data, how to use the data to correct problems right away and ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of our project.

The importance of M&E are as follows:
-Help create a consistent work plan within a time frame

• Helps a team to measure project Progress, successes, challenges and the rectification of challenges and make necessary changes
  -how to collect Data and how a collected that can be used

M & E is important for project design and implementation. It helps to identify early enough whether a project idea is yielding its desired impact and whether there is need to make adjustments to the project inorder to ensure the overall goal is achieved.

hi everyone

I am new in this course as well as online learning
hope to learn more from you all

Monitoring and Evaluation is important because it helps in project management and accomplishing the goals of the project. Setting a goal before the projects starts gives a clear picture of what the project is trying to achieve therefore monitoring and evaluation helps with identifying the most valuable and efficient use of resources to attain the defined goal.

Data is collected when monitoring. this information is used to determine what changes must be done to improve the results if any changes are required to attain the defined goal. And when fully analyzed this information is used to create a final report that will state exactly how the project was a success.

Knowing how to collect and evaluate data before the commencement of a project is a project well delivered.

great information .... thanks for sharing

the importance of M&E are; planning, select the methods, analysing collacted data, and train and etc

ME will help for GOOD project the number of individual who receive loan and this loan have changed their the girl life.
For the second project, without ME plan plan, the donor cannot measure th e progress of the project

M&E is importance as it helps us have an extensive understanding of the project's objectives, success' indicators and achievements.

The first activity to be done is to develop the logical framework of the project. This step will involve defining the objectives of the project and the activities that will make it possible to achieve these objectives. Then, it will be a question of defining the indicators of the project: how many girls the project wants to support; how much in total the project wants to grant to the beneficiaries.
The second step is to define the data collection methods and tools to be used; develop data collection tools; and define the periodicity of data collection;
Then, it will be a question of monitoring the implementation of activities.

For any project to be successful, there should be a clear plan on how to collect data, measure the project progress and then measure if the project has achieved its objectives. This data will be used to make informed decisions. I this case, MEH organization needs an M&E

The importance of m&e is very key to project or activities as to the daily implementation of activities of the project to see if its going according to timeline and the proper use of resources in actualizing the project. On this basis they is a routine basis on accessing if outcomes are in line with project interventions. M&e is massive when it comes to any project for all justifiable reasons.

M&E plan will help a project or organization to obtain and gather the data necessary to understand if their attempts of successful project were achieved. Monitoring is the gathering phase while Evaluating will provide the the outputs and indicators if this goals were successful or not.

1)It helps to track the progress of the project

2. It helps to assess the impact of the project to the beneficiaries, community and other stakeholders
   3)It helps to detect the mistakes and enable to correct them before they become so worse,
3. It helps to make comparisons between what is being implemented/achieved and what have been planned for effective and efficient resources utilization as well as time management.

After analytically read the notes regarding the importance of an M&E, I clearly find that its importance can be explained in the following reasons:

-It helps to assess if the implementation of the activities has been in conformity with the plans and budgets, assess what have been challenges, what re the lessons learnt, what is the impact of the project and what is the way forward after the project phase out.

1)It helps to track the progress of the project

2. It helps to assess the impact of the project to the beneficiaries, community and other stakeholders
   3)It helps to detect the mistakes and enable to correct them before they become so worse,
3. It helps to make comparisons between what is being implemented/achieved and what have been planned for effective and efficient resources utilization as well as time management.

After analytically read the notes regarding the importance of an M&E, I clearly find that its importance can be explained in the following reasons:

-It helps to assess if the implementation of the activities has been in conformity with the plans and budgets, assess what have been challenges, what re the lessons learnt, what is the impact of the project and what is the way forward after the project phase out.