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  • 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.

  • Quite insightful examples

  • M&E are necessary tools for the success of the project, reaching the outcomes.

  • M&E is important to track the progress of planned activities and ultimately measure if the set objective is achieved and desired out comes are met.

  • M&E will allow to understand the progress agaist envisaged outcomes, learn from the past and raise awareness

  • M&E plans for GOOD and MEH can be reachable. The GOOD M&E plan was executed more efficiently but the next was not. MEH I believe will take a little more researching and developing because there is a question of accountability due to the loans that will be given out.

  • M&E is important for -

    1. measuring the progress of a project.
    2. to identify the shortfalls if something goes wrong during the implementation of any project or activity.
    3. to measure the success of a project or activity.
  • The MEH process is important for the following reasons:
    -track progress and make adjustments to ensure project stays on track
    -measure success
    -improvements that are needed for the quality of the project
    -allows the ability to identify problems before they become major issue
    -produces accountability for project outcomes

  • For HEM it would be better to link the number of loans to the numbers of the realized businesses. This way they can learn about how to go to help the maximum of people to build good businesses.

  • M& E helps each project to reach their specific objects and goals. It helps the project team to monitor the progress of the project and activities and they will be able to measure the success of the project.

  • The M&E keeps you on track, that is it make sure your aims of the project is achieve

  • M&E is importance in the process of project management inorder to get / achieve the expected outcome/ impact of the project. Monitoring happens during the implementation of the activities and it needs to done by the project staff (Project manager, program officer, field officer). Evaluation happens at the end of each activity/ project. It can be done by the external person / experts in this profession and sometimes person from the Organization also can do. Some organization specifically have MEAL officer. M&E enable us to track the project in each phase.

  • M&E helps to track our progress and achievement of the project to learn and modify if necessary in a better way.

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    • The M&E is important for planning project to achieve the outcomes,
    • To have the global vision over the implementation of project,
    • To have a good information in time...
  • Developing project M&E plan is important for assessing if project objectives are met. How project will collect data to measure project performance are discussed in the M&E plan.
    M&E is important for project implementers to know if progress has been made, and if the project has reached the right target population.

  • It is essential because it help us understand, gives us a holistic view of the process of achieving our objectives more.

  • It is essential because it help us understand, gives us a holistic view of the process of achieving our objectives more.

    Unrealistic targets hampers on the actualization of the objectives of a project action.
    Targets should commiserate with the dynamics of an intending project objective and the realities on ground

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  • l'importance de S&E est de mesurer et d'analyser les resultat dun projet ou initiative.

  • M&E is very important because he helps the project team for to reach all the goals of the project and inform the team ongoing the implementation of the project if they must correct something for to reach the objectives of the project that they must follow with the M&E plan that they must build before the implementation of the project.

  • M & E helps organization or teams to have a layout plans and goals for a project including timelines

  • M&E plan is the project road map. It consists of our indicators and KPIs. Indicators and KPIs are our guideline to monitor and evaluate the activities and try to achieve it.

  • Great piece especially form the GOOD project staff emphasising the importance of having clear goals and targets within a defined time frame and the need to be clear on how progress will be measured from the very start of the project.
    This as well requires well defined roles and responsibilities assigned to the different tasks. Listening to beneficiary feedback and testimonies helps also in concretizing the change
    Adaptive learning will equality help in adjustments of plans

  • Preparing a plan forms an essential of a project.

  • M&E helps provide a clear road map for a project to all stakeholders and helps to monitor the progress and detect any changes that may affect the overall outcome of the project.

  • Monitoring and evaluation is so important in organizations because it helps one to know the goals of the project, the objectives and then plan on how to achieve the planned objectives by continuously assessing the progress of the project to see if they are on track. If found not to be on track then the find means to se how they can improve.

    M&E also helps the donors to track the progress of the project through the annual reports and make evaluations if they are still in line with their initial plan. Its is so important in that without it the projects will move on without any direction.

  • I am looking forward to learning how to create and implement a strong M&E framework

  • M&E is a tool that defines the mission and vision of the project, the scope and actualizing the mission

  • M & E assists projects to know exactly what to measure and how to measure the success of projects.
    It assists to know when to measure the progress.
    Provides a guide on the project flow.
    Gives a clear guide on what to communicate to donors.

  • According to my understanding, firstly planning and she knows what the goals are, also know how well they are doing. also they have plan of how to collect information and how the projects can improved

  • It's well acceptable and important

  • Wow, so much of interest

  • Importance of M&E
    Monitoring and Evaluation serves divers purposes which are but not limited to:
    1 It help help project developers or planners to define the goal of the project.
    2 It help project developer to define indicators.
    3 it help project planners define method of collecting data.
    4 it help project planners to use data collected to track project progress or performance.
    5 It help project planner to measure the extent which the project has achieved it set goal.
    6 it help the project planners to measure the overall impact of the project on the target people.
    7 It help project planners to make informed decision on whether the project can be sustained.

  • M&E is important for every project as it helps in guiding our work and keeping the project team on tract to attaining the set objectives using the agreed upon performance indicators.

  • M&E help in maintaining track of the project's progress towards achieving the objectives.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation helps one to set clear goal and objectives of his project.
    It also enables one to find ways of achieving the set goals.
    It further enables one to find out ways how he / she will measure the success of his project.

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