Introducing the Guidebook

• About the Guidebook

• Who Can Use the Guidebook?

• The Basis of the Guidebook

• M&E in CDD Projects

• The Significance of a Learning-based M&E System in CDD Projects

• Using the Guidebook

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A Learning-based Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation

• What is a Learning-based M&E System?

• The ‘Learning Dimension’ of a Learning-based M&E System

• Implementing a Learning-based M&E System: Some Common Pitfalls

• The Learning-based M&E System in Action 2.4.1 Best Practices in Application of LME

• Making Learning-based M&E Systems Work: What Can You Do to Encourage Learning within Your Projects and Organisations?

Section II: Strategies for Applying the Learning-based M&E System in CDD Projects

Strategies for Operationalising a Learning-based M&E Systems in CDD Projects

• Strategy 1: Think Through and Set up the Learning-based M&E System during the Project Design Stage

• Ensuring that the Design of the LME Framework is in Line with the Local Context

• Engaging a Right Person/Agency to Guide the Borrower to Develop the LME Design

• Ensuring Clarity and Proper Documentation of the Components of the System

• Field-test the Proposed Framework for the LME System during Pilot Experiments

• Strategy 2: Use Technical Studies (Social, Institutional, Environmental, etc.) to Guide Project Design

• Strategy 3: From Design to Operationalisation: Provide Necessary Support to the Borrower during Implementation Phase

• Demonstrating to the Implementing Agency the Value of a Learning-based Approach to M&E

• Ensuring that the Necessary Institutional Setup and Capacities are in Place

• Strategy 4: Provide Capacity Building and Handholding Support to the Community during Implementation Stage

• Broad-basing Project Information

• Building the Capacities of the CBOs to Perform their Project Functions

• Strategy 5: Identify, Track and Act upon Unforeseen Project Issues

• Strategy 6: Use Process Monitoring as a Management Tool during Project Implementation

Section III: Case Studies on Application of Learning-based M&E System

Achieving Better Project Outcomes through a Learning-based M&E System

• Integrating Participatory Monitoring within the M&E System in a Large CDD Project: The Kecamatan Development Project (KDP), Indonesia

• The KDP M&E System

• The Learning-based Monitoring and Evaluation System in KDP

• Usefulness of the KDP LME System

• Key Messages from the KDP LME System

• Process Monitoring for Making Course Corrections: Community Infrastructure Project (CIP), Pakistan

• Setting up of the Process Monitoring System

• Effectiveness of the Process Monitoring System

• Key Messages

• Community-based Monitoring: Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme, India

• The LME System of Jalanidhi

• How Effective is Participatory Monitoring?

• Key Messages

• Using Process Monitoring Effectively: Sujala Watershed Project, Karnataka, India

• Process Monitoring in Sujala

• How Effective is Process Monitoring in Sujala

• Key Messages

• Process Monitoring for Guiding Project Strategy: Andhra Pradesh DPIP, India

• Approach to Process Monitoring

• Conducting Process Monitoring: Steps

• Translating Learning into Action

• Key Messages

• Learning from a Community Group: CIG Milans in the District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP), Madhya Pradesh, India

• The Genesis of CIG Milans and Learning Forums

• Translating Learning into Action

• Key Messages