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Abstract
Agricultural Water Management (AWM)
interventions for development need a welldesigned
monitoring and evaluation framework that
captures the holistic picture of its planned and unplanned
effects on the watershed, or landscape, and livelihoods
of people. An M&E framework is context-specific and
should be developed with local stakeholders to inform
the desired effects and acceptable and unacceptable
limits and thresholds of change. Inclusion of impact
indicators in an AWM M&E framework in addition
to project indicators can help the project capture
and learn from impacts beyond the project area and
timeframe. This will help to fully assess potential
and actual positive and negative changes, including
possible “negative externalities”. Since budgets for
M&E are often limited, it is important to tailor the
M&E framework to the specific goals and context of
the project.
In this report, we present relevant indicator themes that
have been synthesised from several other organisations’
M&E frameworks. Each synthesised M&E framework
has its own specificity, and the indicators it utilises
may be too theme-specific for every AWM project.
However, the synthesised indicator themes represented
in this report can be used to: 1) analyse existing M&E
frameworks to identify gaps or areas of improvement;
2) provide a starting point for thinking about necessary
project-specific indicators; and 3) as a starting point for
developing a baseline assessment.
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