BASIC
MONITORING
EVALUATION
General 1
General 2
100
Routine tracking and reporting of priority information about a program and its intended outputs and outcomes
What is monitoring?
100
When using the SMART acronym, this is the meaning of the first letter.
What is Specific?
100
Describes an objective analysis of current or completed projects/programmes to determine their relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, outcomes and sustainability
What is an evaluation?
100
A person, group, or entity who has a direct or indirect role and interest in the goals or objectives and implementation of a program/intervention and/or its evaluation
Who is a stakeholder?
100
Any factors that you are assuming to be in place that will contribute to the successful outcome of the project
What are assumptions?
200
the systematic collection of information about program activities, characteristics, and outcomes that determines the merit or worth of a specific program
What is evaluation?
200
A systematic process of gathering and analyzing data in order to determine the achievement of the stated goals/objectives
What is performance monitoring?
200
A final evaluation to determine the achievement of objectives in relation to the resources deployed
What is summative evaluation?
200
An overarching national or sub-national response to a disease or other national priority
What is a program?
200
A time-bound intervention that consists of a set of planned, interrelated activities aimed at achieving defined objectives
What is a project?
300
The results of program activities
What is are outputs?
300
A subset of monitoring attributes that are particularly information-rich in the sense that their values are somehow indicative of the quality, health, or integrity of the larger ecological system to which they belong
What is an indicator?
300
An evaluation that aggregates findings from a series of evaluations
What is meta-evaluation?
300
Points out the factors of success and failure of the evaluated intervention, with special attention paid to the intended and unintended results, and more generally to any other strength or weakness.
What are conclusions?
300
a scientifically rigorous methodology to establish a causal association between programs and what they aimed to achieve beyond the outcomes on individuals targeted by the program(s)
What is impact evaluation?
400
A statement of desired program results
What is an objective?
400
This method of monitoring can also be defined as "The action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information."
What is Observation?
400
An evaluation of the internal dynamics of implementing organizations, their policy instruments, their service delivery mechanisms, their management practices and the linkage among these
What is process evaluation?
400
A comprehensive planning document for all M&E activities
What is an M&E plan?
400
Data that describe the situation to be addressed by a programme or project and that serve as the starting point for measuring the performance of that programme or project
What is baseline data?
500
The longer range, cumulative effect of programs over time on what they ultimately aim to change
What What is an impact?
500
Descriptive, and this, are two ways to present the results.
What is Inferential?
500
A type of evaluation that is concerned with determining if, and by how much, program activities or services achieved their intended outcomes among the targeted population
What is outcome evaluation?
500
A methodological approach that describes a situation, individual, or the like and that typically incorporates data-gathering activities (e.g., interviews, observations, questionnaires) at selected sites or programs/projects.
What is a case study?
500
The causal link of one thing to another
What is attribution?
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