Publication: Monitoring and Evaluation: Some Tools, Methods, and Approaches
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Date
2004-09-01
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2004-09-01
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Operations Evaluation Department
Abstract
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of
development activities provides government officials,
development managers, and civil society with better means
for learning from past experience, improving service
delivery, planning and allocating resources, and
demonstrating results as part of accountability to key
stakeholders. Within the development community there is a
strong focus on results, this helps explain the growing
interest in M&E. Yet there is often confusion about what
M&E entails. The purpose of this M&E overview is to
strengthen awareness and interest in M&E, and to clarify
what it entails. The M&E overview discusses: performance
indicators, the logical framework approach, theory-based
evaluation, formal surveys, rapid appraisal methods,
participatory methods, public expenditure tracking surveys,
cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, and impact evaluation.
Citation
“Operations Evaluation Department. 2004. Monitoring and Evaluation : Some Tools, Methods, and Approaches. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/23975 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”