Monitoring and Evaluating

Community Health Programs

Implemented
Monitoring
Monitoring is the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and using
information to track a programme’s progress toward reaching its objectives and
to guide management decisions. Monitoring usually focuses on processes,
such as when and where activities occur, who delivers them and how many
people or entities they reach.

Monitoring is conducted after a programme has begun and continues

throughout the programme implementation period. Monitoring is sometimes
referred to as process, performance or formative evaluation. (Adapted from
Gage and Dunn 2009, Frankel and Gage 2007, and PATH Monitoring and
Evaluation Initiative)
Evaluation
Evaluation is the systematic assessment of an activity, project, programme, strategy,
policy, topic, theme, sector, operational area or institution’s performance. Evaluation
focuses on expected and achieved accomplishments, examining the results chain
(inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts), processes, contextual factors and
causality, in order to understand achievements or the lack of achievements. Evaluation
aims at determining the relevance, impact, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability
of interventions and the contributions of the intervention to the results achieved.
(Adapted from Gage and Dunn 2009, Frankel and Gage 2007)

An evaluation should provide evidence-based information that is credible, reliable and

useful. The findings, recommendations and lessons of an evaluation should be used to
inform the future decision-making processes regarding the programme.
https://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/330-what-is-monitoring-and-evaluation-.html
Designing and Implementing . . . .
An evaluation plan is a written document that describes how to monitor and
evaluate the program, as well as how you intend to use evaluation results for
program improvement and decision making.
The evaluation plan clarifies how to describe the “What,” the “How,” and the “Why
It Matters” for the program
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/cdc-evaluation-workbook-508.pdf

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c3vmQDslZS-MoSTLf8WFGXXw8kRBJ84NbG5zAUYh2GQ/edit#slide=id.g92495a00a5_1_0
Types of Evaluation Planning
Evaluation can be characterised as being either formative or summative. Broadly (and this
is not a rule), formative evaluation looks at what leads to an intervention working (the
process), whereas summative evaluation looks at the short-term to long-term outcomes of an
intervention on the target group.

Formative evaluation takes place in the lead up to the project, as well as during the project
in order to improve the project design as it is being implemented (continual improvement).
Formative evaluation often lends itself to qualitative methods of inquiry.
Summative evaluation takes place during and following the project implementation, and is
associated with more objective, quantitative methods. The distinction between formative
and summative evaluation can become blurred. Generally it is important to know both how
an intervention works, as well as if it worked. It is therefore important to capture and
assess both qualitative and quantitative data.

http://evaluationtoolbox.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=19

https://www.slideshare.net/manusethi927/types-of-evaluation
Steps of Program Evaluation
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https://www.thecompassforsbc.org/how-to-guides/how-develop-monitoring-and-evaluation-plan