Monitoring for Outcomes and Impacts in Community Driven Projects

USING A LEARNING BASED APPROACH TO M&E

Ashis Mondal‚ Soma Dutta

List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Annexures
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Preface

Section I: Introducing the Learning-based M&E System
 

1.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

2.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

3.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

4.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