Monitoring and evaluation of development projects and programs

This book on the monitoring and evaluation of development projects and programmes is the fruit of some thirty years' experience as a project manager and evaluator.The book begins by covering the basic concepts of development projects programmes and plans and the notions of monitoring evaluation indicators targets and evaluation criteria such as relevance coherence effects impacts effectiveness efficiency sustainability and gender and human rights considerations.It goes on to discuss ex-ante or a priori evaluation methods which are carried out before projects are implemented and ex-post or a posteriori evaluation methods which are carried out during or at the end of project implementation and which may be a mid-term evaluation a final evaluation or a retrospective evaluation.