Integrated monitoring: A practical manual for organisations that want to achieve results

This  manual from inProgress (archived link) aims to support non profit organisations to effectively monitor their programs.

It provides a step by step process to set up a monitoring system and use a range of tools to continue the monitoring process.

Contents

  • I. KEY ASPECTS OF MONITORING
  • 1. What is Monitoring?
  • 2. Why Do We Monitor and For Whom?
  • 3. Who is Involved?
  • 4. How Does it Work?
  • 5. When Do We Monitor?
  • 5. What Do We Monitor?
  • 5.1 Monitoring What We Do, Versus What We Achieve
  • II. HOW DO WE MONITOR?
  • 1. Steps for Setting Up a Monitoring System
  • 2. How to Monitor the Process and the Outputs
  • 3. How to Monitor the Achievement of Results
  • 3.1 Define Results/Outcomes
  • 3.2 Define Indicators for Results
  • 4. Prepare a Detailed Monitoring Plan
  • 5. Identify Sources of Information
  • 6. Data Collection
  • 6.1 Tools for Data Compilation
  • 7. Reflection and Analysis
  • 7.1 Documenting and Sharing
  • 8. Learning and Reviewing
  • 8.1 Learning
  • 8.2 Reviewing
  • 9. Evaluation

Sources

Herrero, S. inProgress, (2012). Integrated monitoring: A practical manual for organisations that want to achieve results. Retrieved from website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140209093752/http://www.inprogressweb.com/ (archived link)