Transcript Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring and Evaluation
Prof. Thomas Tufte, PhD
Roskilde University
Presentation given at MIH, University of
Copenhagen, 19 February 2013
What is
Monitoring and Evaluation about?
• Why monitor and evaluate?
• Who decides what to monitor?
– The people, the org/consultant, the donor
• What to monitor and evaluate?
– Processes, outcomes, impact
• Using what tools? From KAP to Ethnography
– Baseline: survey, qualitative strategies
• Time line? Long-, medium- shortterm
• M><E; internal instruments >< external
Challenges in M&E
- which change process are you evaluating?
Individual Change
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Attitudes
• Practices
Social Change
• Leadership
• Degree and Equity of
Participation
• Information Equity
• Collective Self-Efficacy
• Sense of Ownership
• Social Cohesion
• Social Norms
What are you evaluating?
• What level of intervention are you evaluating:
– Individual
– Community
– Societal
• Distiguish between processes and outcomes
What are you expecting from an evaluation?
• Results of specific intervention?
• Understanding of change processes?
• Organizing observable evidence will produce
results
• Producing insights through analysis with
produce understanding
Soul City Experience
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Media monitoring
Partnership analysis
National survey
Sentinel site studies
Cost efficiency analysis
• Three levels of analysis: individual, community,
society
From KAP to ’Integrated Model’
• M&E on Individual Behaviour Change: KAP
Studies/Steps to Behaviour Change
• M&E on Social Change:
– The Integrated Model on CFSC
– Most Significant Change (MSC)
Communication for Social Change: what kinds
of interventions
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Stimulating community
dialogues
Creating an enabling
information and
communication environment;
Catalysing social change
Promoting accountability
• CFSC approaches (Malawi)
• FEMINA: Plural media capable
of airing discordant voices, and
spaces for public dialogue
(Talk shows, FEMINA,
SiMChezo, Pilika Pilika)
• Soul City
• Access to and sharing
information and participatory
budgeting