Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger

CHAPTER 5: MONITORING, EVALUATION AND SYSTEMATIZATION
OF PROGRAMMES
SUMMARY
• Monitoring, evaluation, and systematization are phases of project cycle management
that aim to evaluate the progress in implementation and the results
achieved, analyze the impact of the programme and extract lessons learned for
future interventions.
• Each programme must have a monitoring and evaluation plan.
• These analytical exercises serve to improve the impact of the programmes and
avoid negative results, thus they should be taken into account when revising the
planning.
• Systematization is recommended when there are means to carry it out. It can be
used to share information both internally and externally.
The monitoring, evaluation and systematization phases of project cycle management
(PCM) are designed to measure the advances in project implementation and the
results and impact achieved, as well as to recognize lessons learned in order to improve
the quality of interventions and their impact, in this case, on the food security
of the population 18 .
The following section presents the concepts and some recommendations regarding
the methodology that can be used for monitoring, evaluation and systematization
of an income generation programme.
I. MONITORING
Monitoring aims to analyze:
• Progress in the programme, the goods and services that are offered through the
programme
• How these goods and services are being used in order to obtain results
• The effects of unexpected external factors in achieving the results
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For more details on the topic consult the book “Introduction to Food Security” in this same series.
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