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  • I have learned more about M and E especially the words Logframe, Input, Output,outcome and Impact very well

  • M&E helps you to track the progress of your activities or the project, it helps in knowing whether the resources are used for the right purpose, helps in knowing whether the project is benefiting the intended beneficiaries, it also helps us to know whether the objectives of the project are been achieved.

  • Yes, I understood how M&E is important for MEH project. I think there should be monitoring about how man girls and which types of skills they have, and which skills they should be learn to use for their startup like sewing cloths or garments.

  • I am very happy with the course, it has helped me a lot

  • The importance of monitoring and evaluation is to answer the "WH" questions. i.e
    Where to go means where is the goal of the project
    Which means to which methods and tools are we use for the project
    To identify the risks and assumptions of the project and produce a solution during the project phase or before the project starts.
    Evaluate the project time limit

  • Its important because it helps to check what you have planned vs what have been done

  • Monitoring and evaluation are essential because, without them, it is impossible to determine a project's impact and outcome. My company's continued success is a result of monitoring and evaluation, so I'm curious to learn more about M and E.

  • M&E plan is vital in project performance

  • Also M&E helps the team to identify a problem at its initial stages and come up with a mitigation measure early enough to save resources and time

  • Growing pressure on government due to internal and external forces such as international donors and parliment ask the government to have accountability and transparency on fund expenditure, M&E system can enhance accountability and transparency. Moreover, the information from M&E can also help the government organization to formulate effective policy making and successful implementation of the policy and projects. M&E can also reduce the corruption through increasing transparency.

  • In these two topics I need to prepare plan how organize this project, how to achieve results and how to collect data information in these projects and I need to understand the causes of complex problems and I need to see projects succeed ways.
    In first and second projects (GOOD and MEH) team every months needs to collect project information regularly to measure the progress of your project or activity, for example how many villages girls participate in this projects. I need to collect information how he project activities have achieved the project’s objectives. Main task collect data information bout our project

  • The first project is Girls Organizing for Ongoing Development (GOOD), a project that will help local girls to open savings accounts. GOOD’s project manager took this course last month, and she has already created a fantastic M&E plan.

    Her team knows precisely what its goals are: they want to open 1200 new savings accounts for girls in 34 Kenyan villages in the next six months. And they will know how well they are doing, too, because they have already decided how they will measure progress: every field office will have one person recording how many girls open savings accounts. In addition, they have plans to collect information on how the savings accounts change their beneficiaries lives, what beneficiaries think about the project, and how the project can be improved. In a year, when it’s time to write the annual report for their funders and partners, they will be ready to say exactly how successful their project was. And if anything starts to go wrong, they will be able to catch the problem right away and make any necessary changes.

  • Targets are relative to a project. Some unrealistic targets to one organization's project may not be unrealistic to another. There are certain factors that determine the unrealistic nature of a target

    1. Project budget.. Some projects may not have enough money and other resources to meet their intended goals.
    2. Time may result unrealistic targets.
    3. Lack of skilled manpower
      These above factor are very key when setting targets.
  • Targets are relative to a project. Some unrealistic targets to one organization's project may not be unrealistic to another. There are certain factors that determine the unrealistic nature of a target

    1. Project budget.. Some projects may not have enough money and other resources to meet their intended goals.
    2. Time may result unrealistic targets.
    3. Lack of skilled manpower
      These above factor are very key when setting targets.
  • M&E helps to measure the progress of the project and what can be done to improve the project.
    it also helps to identify the impact the project is having on the beneficiary.

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  • Targets are relative to a project. Some unrealistic targets to one organization's project may not be unrealistic to another. There are certain factors that determine the unrealistic nature of a target

    1. Project budget.. Some projects may not have enough money and other resources to meet their intended goals.
    2. Time may result unrealistic targets.
    3. Lack of skilled manpower
      These above factor are very key when setting targets.
  • It brings out the aspect of Qualitative and Quantitative understanding on project Cost, Scope, time and performance given the constrains on specific projects.

  • yes, this provides a platform to guide your project

  • true, with M&E Plan most correction can be done through daily, weekly and monthly monitoring instead of just waiting and do evaluation at the end of project implementation

  • All is well and interesting

  • M&E is important to know the success of project intervention in achievement its objectives in quality, timely and efficient manner

  • This is an interesting view of how monitoring and evaluation plays a role in a project.

  • M&E can help to shape project strategy

  • M&E is avital tool in keeping teams focused to the desired goal

  • M&E Helps to inform project design and best indicator to expect after the project.
    it further helps to form project implementation strategy

  • It provides a way to assess the crucial link between implementation and services provided to beneficiaries which inturn helps donors or funders measure impact

    • Importance of M&E
      Identify indicators for project success
      Used as the roadmap towards project implementation
      illustrate corrective signs for project path
      Used to make analysis on project progress
  • MEH should consider their strategy in the long-term as well, i.e. how many of the businesses that were started through loans are still functioning after a longer period of time, i.e. one year. They should be looking at whether the businesses are profitable as well, or if they are breaking even or providing minimal sustenance for the loan recipients; they should consider how to measure Return on Investment as it pertains to the microloan program.

  • I enjoyed Module 1; it was interesting and the examples of the fictional organizations (GOOD and MEH) were pertinent (although at first I was confused as to whether NOPE was a fictional organization like the other two.) I guess one issue I had was that the assignment encouraged me to focus on answer A, but I thought that section was pretty simple for me. However, I filled it out as thoroughly as I could.

  • Enables us to gather important information about the project so that we are able to determine the progress and performance of the various project scheduled activities.
    Helps to communicate to the project funders about the utilization of the resources
    Enables us to find out the bottle necks during project implementation so that the project is smoothly implemented.

  • M&E is important because it helps organizations to be accountable, learn, make informed decisions, promote transparency, and optimize resources.

  • M& E is important because it helps organisation to measure progress and identify challenges in a particular area and offer solutions

    M& E is important because it provides qualitative and quantitative data to stakeholders

  • As per my understanding, there is a project which was work for development of girls lives

  • This enable me to have the knowledge on how to come up with aproject, decide on the goals and the objectives, initiate it and develope monitoring and evaluation plan which will greatly help to measure the progress of the project to its completion and evaluate the final results

  • I am new to MEbut from this introductory part, I conclude that one should prepare a monitoring and evaluation plan from the start of a project.

  • M&E helps to measure results, that way success can be distinguished from failure
    Success cannot be rewarded if it is not established.
    If success is not rewarded failure will likely be rewarded.
    If success and failures are not established the we cannot learn from our success or failures.

  • That's right a good M&E plan should have be able to clearly spell out objectives of the project or activity and those objectives should be Short, Acceptable, Measurable, Reliable and Timely

  • M&E help project managers and other project implementers to see their progress,see if they are in the right path,
    helps to develop informed decision making on their projects

  • M & E is important because it helps organisation to formulate goals and plans for particular project

    M & E helps organisations to identify challenges in a particular project

    M&E helps organisations to generate solutions and improve in areas where they face challenges

  • M & E is important because it helps organisation to formulate goals and plans for a particular project

    M&E is important because it helps organisation to their measure progress

    M & E helps to identify problems being faced on the project

    M&E helps organisations to generate solutions and improve in certain areas where something went wrong

  • The Programme objective is not clearly articulated in second Project (MEH)

  • les amies avec ce cours je commences à comprendre vraiment le suivi-evaluation et je suis fier d'assister fortement à ce cours.

  • M&E its an important with every organization and project to have data and facilitate a decision

  • yes agree with that

  • M&E is crucial for measuring success. From the start of creating plan of the project, identifying the concrete needs and SMART approach should be followed.

  • M&E are important tools for understanding whether a project is on track and achieving its intended objectives. By tracking progress and collecting information, project managers can identify issues early, see the project's impact or effects on the project beneficiaries, their views about the project and if there are any problems with the project, project managers will be able to make necessary corrections on time

  • Hello everyone. This is Bellan Alain. Am new on the platform

  • Thank you for offering this valuable opportunity and I am looking forward to gaining as much as I could from my colleagues in this course .

  • The explanation in comparing both examples are clear. M&E Plan will absolutely play important role for the project at the beginning (Startup project/baseline), in the middle (Quarterly and Annual Report) and at the end (closeout report).

  • then we still have time if we still at the beginning of a project ? But could we prepare that before we get start the project? Is a negotiable issue with the funders before the project even starts ?

  • With a M&E plan, a project is more susceptible to be accepted .

  • the MEH needs to take a decesion about how to measure by how many businesses they help get started.

  • M&E is important for knowing the project's impact on the society and change to many people's lives

  • M & E will help the organisation to know whether the funds and resources have been efficiently utilised and have achieved the intended purpose.
    Secondly, M & E will help the organisation to learn from the mistakes made and never to repeat them in future projects, therefore, this becomes a learning opportunity for the team members.
    Thirdly, M & E will encourage the diversity of thoughts and opinions since the different team members will bring on board different ideas during the brainstorming session.

  • Through Monitoring and Evaluation the observation can easily identify the efficiency and effectiveness of the program or plan to monitor. A plan can guide the flow of the program or project that need to implement.

  • The first importance of M&E it helps to measure the progress of the on going project and get to know how well the project is doing. secondly it helps the project owners identify different ways they will use to collect data to get as much information as possible. thirdly M&E helps the project owners know how impactful the project has been to the beneficiaries and how it can be improved. additionally when it’s time to write the annual report for their funders and partners, they will be ready to say exactly how successful their project was. lastly if anything starts to go wrong, they are able to catch the problem right away and make any necessary changes.

  • the importance of M&E is to know goals and the way of doing that work to achieve the goal. it shows directions about how, when, and how often the data is collected. it makes the job easy, and good for accountability for the beneficiary or for the donors.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation enables the project implementers measure the progress of the project thus know how well they are doing. secondly they will be able to decided the suitable methods they will use to collect data from the beneficiaries. Thirdly they will collect information on how impactful the project has been to the beneficiaries, their thought and how the project can be improved. most importantly through monitoring if anything starts to go wrong as the project progresses, they will be able to catch the problem right away and make any necessary changes. Additionally, when it’s time to write the annual report for their funders and partners, they will be ready to say exactly how successful their project was.

  • Monitoring and evaluation are important because through this process one is able to collect and analyze data and determine if a project/program has fulfilled its goals. Another importance is that projects to stay on track as the information which is collected through monitoring reveals gaps or issues which need to be addressed or prioritized. M&E also provides details of what went wrong or right during a project and this knowledge is essential when planning for similar projects in the future. M&E also enhances transparency and accountability trough tracking, analyzing and reporting especially during the monitoring phase.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation enables the project implementers measure the progress of the project thus know how well they are doing. secondly they will be able to decided the suitable methods they will use to collect data from the beneficiaries. Thirdly they will collect information on how impactful the project has been to the beneficiaries, their thought and how the project can be improved. most importantly through monitoring if anything starts to go wrong as the project progresses, they will be able to catch the problem right away and make any necessary changes. Additionally, when it’s time to write the annual report for their funders and partners, they will be ready to say exactly how successful their project was.

  • Risks and assumptions helps understand events and conditions that are unforeseen that affect project implementation.
    It involves checking on past similar activities and talking to project benefiaciaries to inform you on the risks on the ground

  • Measure and Evaluation is important because Monitoring helps to tract performance and use this information to make informed decision while Evaluation, measures how well the project has achieved its objective, this is by saying that how well has the project impacted or intervene.

  • it is necessary to set up output, outcome and impact indicators to measure not only how many loans have been given out, but also it is necessary to measure what kind behaviors have been changed in girls/women that have received loans. Some time later, it is crucial to measure what kind of impact (positive or negative) did the loans bring to the girls lives.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation allows teams and organizations to access the strength of their interventions/projects. It helps them see the quality of their interventions and learn from the results.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation allows teams and organizations to access the strength of their interventions/projects. It helps them see the quality of their interventions and learn from the results.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation allows teams and organizations to access the strength of their interventions/projects. It helps them see the quality of their interventions and learn from the results.

  • it will help the organization check if they are moving inline with their vision and goals and also it will help identify problems if they arise at any point of implementation.

  • M & E is important in as it ensures the efficient utilization of resources. Areas that need improvement would be revealed through m&e.
    Agree, M & E is great to measure impact to for example donors how their funds were utilized to make change in the community.

  • I am a program manager who is tasked to create an M and E plan. Glad to find this course.

  • In the non-profit world M & E is very important. Specially to donors and sponsors to learn the impact of their gift.

  • From the illustrations of the two fictional projects, i have observed that, MEH does not have indicators which will act as milestones to achieving the goal of improving girls lives and furthermore, they do not have targets to help them denote how far they have gone in the achieving specific indicators.

  • It was interesting. I learned a lot.

  • M&E helps individuals or organizations to prepare and know how they are faring in a particular project and device means of dealing with any challenge that the organization is faced with on daily basis and the way forward to produce better yield

  • Le suivi et évaluation est très capital pour un projet à ce sens qu'à l'issu des activités de suivi des informarmations sont régulièrement colletées pour renseigner sur l'avancement des activités en vue d'une prise de décision pour amélioration de la qualité de la mise en oeuvre des activités. L'évaluation est effectuée pour s'imprégner de comment les activités ont concouru au changement et à l'atteinte des résultats et de l'objectif du projet

  • Here is a good scenario that helps me get the overall idea of the M&E plan

  • it good for me to understand that because it is my weakness or my organizational weakness to get fist there M&E paln.

  • Monitoring makes it possible to assess the progress of the implementation of the project and to make the necessary adjustments as needed. the evaluation makes it possible to assess whether the objectives of the project have been achieved and to what extent.
    Monitoring and evaluation is essential for the proper implementation of a project.

  • M&E is very cardinal in any project to make sure that the deliverable align with outputs and outcomes and impact is known

  • 120 small businesses borrowed 200 dollars from MEH within 6 months. This amount of money significantly helped small businesses to enhance their productivity in such areas as agriculture, hand-craft, and farms business. The representatives from the MEH are regularly recording the progress of their businesses and while monitoring the work progress, they are able to tackle any negative impact which might cause their businesses. Fot this reason, all small business are doing great job.

  • Monitory and evaluation has so many benefits including;

    • It results in good transparency and accountability because of the tracking, analyzing and report of a project during the M&E phase.
  • The M&E is really an important part of any project. This helps the project team to come up with Mitigation strategies for the risks and reduce biasness more especially relying on data.

    Planning on the project summary properly will probably help one to accomplish their impact of the study.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation is essential for any project as Monitoring and Evaluation provides indicators for project success. These indicators are essential as they form part of the lessons to be adopted for future projects . Monitoring and evaluation helps identify risks before they occur and ways of counteracting the risks by either avoiding,transfer or facing the risks this can be done by use of a risk matrix .Monitoring and evaluation is an essential reporting tool as it helps the project team in coming up with the project report.

  • This course is good

  • Best course I have ever met

  • This enable me to have the knowledge on how to come up with aproject, decide on the goals and the objectives, initiate it and develope monitoring and evaluation plan which will greatly help to measure the progress of the project to its completion and

  • This is very interesting. Thank you people

  • The importance of M&E is to check your work and balanced it whether you have succeed

  • To understand the importance of M&E plan, i can take the example of two students : the first has defined a learning's timetable that he manages to possibly conform to, whereas the second doesn't have any. On the basis of equality, one can say that, the first is more likely to have a better undestanding of the courses and hence pass his exams. The risk of not having a timetable when studying is, the student may be surprised by time and will be forced to allocate extra time, if possible, to learning. In most cases, this situation leads to frustration because the student tries to assimilate many things at the same time, this way of doing may not be effective.

  • The logframe for Good Girl: Game On! will be:

    The Input:
    Social media contents & online events
    The Risk & Assumption
    The target audience does not have enough mobile data to access our social media contents or online events

    The Output:
    Girls learn from our contents.
    The Risk & Assumption
    The girls are not interested by our contents, or
    our contents are read by wrong people (not our target audience)

    The Outcome:
    Girls practice what they learn from our social media contents
    The Risk & Assumption
    They don't have any support to do it

    The Impact:
    Safe space for all
    The Risk & Assumption
    There are still toxic people joining the community, or
    There are new people who join who doesn't understand how our safe community works because they haven't been exposed to our social media contents

  • Just to say something about MEH. I think measuring the number of businesses they helped established is a better measurement of their objective.
    As I learn more about the course, I'll revisit this with more reasons.

  • This is a document is important because organizations can use it to track and assess the results of the interventions throughout a program or an activity.

  • An M&E plan is essential for any project/ program, as it provides with a platform to build good quality outcomes. If you have planned your monitoring and evaluation framework appropriately you save a lot of time and resources which might otherwise have been wasted in correcting misdoings.

  • Creating the M&E plan prior enacting any projects that is great start for projects development and success

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  • Helps in data collection used to measure project progress
    Helps in tracking performance overtime
    Helping in making informed decisions about the project
    Helps in the utilization of project resources
    Helps in achieving the project's objectives
    Helps measure outcomes linked to the project

    Preparing for Risks and Assumptions helps in outlining the steps needed to improve the project and ensure that the impact inteded is achieved in the long run. The

  • Le mesure de donné et les indicateurs de résultat et de performance ne doivent-ils pas être connue pendant le montage du projet elle même?

    1. Help Organization to measure their progress and access.
    2. Tracking results over time.
    3. Essentials to the time of Resource Management (fund)
  • 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.

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