Monitoring & Evaluation Advocacy

ELRI’s has developed a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tool kit that seeks to provide stakeholders with better means for learning from past experience, improving service delivery, planning and allocating resources on developmental projects, and demonstrating results as part of accountability to key stakeholders. ELRI understands that there is a strong focus on the need for projects outcomes for project initiators, thus, its M & E strategy seeks to provide appropriate information on project outputs for effective assessment of project impact. To this end, its M & E tools are:

• Performance indicators
• The logical framework approach
• Theory-based evaluation
• Formal surveys
• Rapid appraisal methods
• Public Participation methods
• Public access to information tracking and surveys
• Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
• Impact analysis and evaluation

These tools are not exhaustive, as the choice of which is appropriate for any given context will depend on a range of considerations. These would include the uses for which M&E is intended, the stakeholders who have an interest in the M&E findings and the urgency of the information required.