INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT II - LIFE-IWRMII ...

PERFORMANCE MONITORING PLAN (PMP)
The original Performance Monitoring Plan 1 (PMP)
of the project was produced in July 2009 to guide
the M&E program for the project. Its purpose
was (a) to provide feedback to project managers
during project implementation and (b) to provide a
comprehensive and coherent information base
which can be used to assess project outcomes.
Definitions of some basic terms used in this report
are shown in the box at right. More detail can be
found in the PMP.
The original PMP employed two types of
indicators. Implementation (Process) indicators
monitor the progress of the project. They deal
with the pace of activities undertaken by the
project. Outcome (Results) indicators assess the
cumulative effects of project activities on the
project’s objectives.
M&E DEFINITIONS
A goal is a broad statement of what a program
would like to accomplish. It portrays a positive
future condition.
Objectives are specific, measurable, appropriate,
realistic, and time-bound statements describing
what the project hopes to accomplish.
Indicators are objectively measurable gauges of
progress toward achieving an objective or
measuring the impact of a specific intervention.
Targets are specific values of indicators that the
program wishes to achieve through its actions.
A baseline provides a starting point from which
to measure progress.
AMENDMENT OF THE PMP
In early 2011, USAID conducted a Mid-term Evaluation of the IWRM II project. The final report of
this evaluation, dated May 2011, contained a number of conclusions and recommendations that
affected the original project’s performance monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities. In response
to the recommendations made in the evaluation report the project developed an addendum to the
PMP to add a new class of indicators; Organizational indicators..
The amended PMP now includes three classes of indicators. The first comprises implementation
indicators, which report progress in implementing project tasks. The second comprises outcome
indicators, which measure the degree of
achievement of overall project objectives. These
outcome indicators reflect the combined effects
of the individual project tasks. The third class of
indicators, here termed organizational indicators,
measures changes in the capacity of two key
organizations being developed and strengthened
under the project – Branch Canal Water User
Associations (BCWUAs) and Integrated Water
Management Districts (IWMDs).
The organizational indicators for BCWUAs are:
• Governance processes
• Accountability and participation
• Operational performance
o Water distribution
o Maintenance
o Conflict resolution
INDICATOR CLASSES
• Implementation indicators measure the inputs
provided by the project to accomplish desired
change
• Organizational indicators measure the capacity
and performance of the organizations which
are key actors in the desired change process
• Outcome indicators measure the combined
results of project inputs and interventions
relative to overall project objectives
1 IRG. 2009. Performance Monitoring Plan, Report no. 6. Cairo: MWRI, IWRM II project.
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