What is monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring is a process to periodically collect, analyse and use information to actively manage performance, maximise positive impacts and minimise the risk of adverse impacts.

It is an important part of effective management because it can provide early and ongoing information to help shape implementation in advance of evaluations.

What is monitoring?

Monitoring processes can monitor change and progress in different aspects: needs, the operating context, activities, and the results of activities, projects, programmes and policies.

Monitoring is best thought of as part of an integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system that brings together various activities relating to gathering and using data.

How does monitoring differ from evaluation?

Monitoring is typically:

Periodic and ongoing during implementation

Monitoring brings evaluative thinking into the periodic collection, analysis and use of information during implementation, as distinct from single discrete evaluation events or even several linked discrete evaluation events (such as a mid-term and

how is monitoring different from evaluation

how monitoring is done