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