What is HIV and AIDS?

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is essential in mainstreaming work. M&E must look
at whether change has happened asking the following questions:
Have changes occurred?
What has changed?
How has it changed?
Why has it changed?
Who was involved?
When did it happen?
These are basic starting points.
Section 10: Monitoring and Evaluation
M&E of mainstreaming work can be difficult to capture because you are looking at
changes in attitudes and behaviours as well. Be aware of your context when
designing monitoring and evaluation tools, making sure they are culturally
appropriate.
You may decide that before embarking on any activities to do a knowledge, attitude,
behaviour and practice (KABP) survey. This can serve as baseline data. You can then
measure after one year and two years what changes have taken place since then by
repeating the survey. People may find it uncomfortable to write down let alone talk
about personal practices and behaviour. You may wish to start off with some
questions regarding knowledge and attitudes first and then move onto behaviour. See
Annex 19 for an example.
For every activity that you do, you must incorporate some kind of monitoring. This is
important for two reasons; firstly to determine what people have learnt as a result of
the activity and the second is what has worked well and any suggestions for
improvements for next time. See Annex 20 for an example.
It does not always have be formal written questionnaires but some way to capture
what has happened. Be creative. Use the VSO guide “Participatory Approaches: A
facilitator’s Guide” to help you design your monitoring activity. Remember, informal
conversations and observations are just as important as quantitative data. For
example, is there more discussion regarding HIV and AIDS amongst people? Are
people using the free condoms available in the workplace? How have peoples
relationships changed? Are men and women working together?
For volunteers – as part of monitoring of your placements such as the quarterly or 6
month review, questions regarding HIV mainstreaming are included to help VSO
China capture changes that are happening at placement level.
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