Monitoring and evaluation for AKIS projects - framework and options
Alex, Gary | Byerlee, Derek
This Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) Good Practice Note summarizes current thinking, and good practice with monitoring and evaluation of agricultural technology projects and programs. The importance of good monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is widely recognized, but establishing M&E systems for research and extension is difficult, and Bank projects have lagged in introducing sound M&E arrangements for projects, and for national institutions. Improving monitoring and evaluation systems for agricultural research, extension, and education programs is a long-term process, critical to improving program management and sustainability, and to building effective institutions to promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and conserve environmental resources. To establish a sound basis for project M&E, Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) must describe M&E systems in adequate detail, addressing questions of what information is to be collected, how, by whom, when, where, and why. The M&E plan should describe arrangements for obtaining baseline or control data; assess capacity for carrying out M&E; define indicators and targets; identify investments needed to strengthen M&E capabilities of implementing agencies; and, identify key assumptions.
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