good day folks what is the monitoring and evaluation handbook
well if you're in an organization right
now and we are doing M and E handbook
is more like a Bible for that
organization in terms of M&E of course
monitoring and evaluation handbook is
very important it contains the
monitoring and evaluation concepts
it also explains more about monitoring
and evaluation gives the monitoring and evaluation strategy
also gives
monitoring and evaluation methodologies
M&E programme and M&E construction all those
things in the handbook but there's one
thing you have to realize folks when it
comes to a monitoring and evaluation
handbook usually this is tailored for an
organization a specific organization
what I'm saying things that they create
this book and this book is mainly
designed to tena their own circumstances
but as usual i don't feel good
explaining things myself but would just
go just go to google and asked go-go
what excuse monitoring and evaluation
handbook is so i'll type monitoring and
evaluation handbook
ok so now if you look down here I must
admit guys you know each time I'm
looking for a handbook on the internet
majority of times what pops out is the
United Nations is well
renounce in so many things I took the
privilege of downloading their handbook
and it's right here this is the handbook
on what all of our ok rated handbook on
planning monitoring and evaluating for
development results application by the
united nations development program
that's the undp now when you go on the
internet guys you want find a specific
definition explaining what a handbook is
but you're going to get a feeling that
handbook is something like this or
something like that so after downloading
this publication I saw this section
called forward and it briefly explains
why this handbook is there and its
people so now let me just breathe
briefly reads parts and section this is
supporting national capacity development
for poverty reduction and the attainment
of the millennium development and cause
lies at the very heart of you NDP's
mandate that means that we must work
with program countries to assist in the
formulation of those strategies policy
structures and processes which will have
system-wide development impact now let's
keep there you go to result as many men
provides a set of principles approaches
and tools which can help us achieve
these goals
ok let's go back let's go further
this in turn requires us to embrace a
culture of evaluation i hope this
publication of this handbook will help
us and our patterns to be even clearer
about the higher level results we want
to achieve to develop and add-on
strategies to achieve these results so
already doing
reading this handbook this handbook in
my view looks to be designed for the
organization itself although we
stakeholders can go through it embrace
it and get some knowledge out of it but
the truth of the matter is that it has
been designed for United undp and its
partners and if you further read down
yeah actually going to see that if you
read all these it's actually going to
tell you how this handbook was developed
and who its intended people up so this
is a useful handbook of God have one
through this a couple of times and
haven't rated page by page because
that's not its intended purpose but I've
gone through it and I can really see the
sense of it now how to develop a handful
well a handbook is enter one of thing it
cannot be developed by a pass on by
himself alone one individual north of
course one person can facilitate the
process but really developing in
handbook requires a team of individuals
if you not to say that different handles
so many different handbooks there's one
by the US eight this one here there are
so many handbooks you know you have to
appreciate that people are always
looking for best ways to capture data
and improve monitoring and evaluation so
folks that back to the question how do
you develop a handle
well first things first it needs a
combination of experts who have high
level of experience in monitoring and
evaluation it means people who are
actually in the organization itself so
you know when developing this handle you
should have individuals who have worked
for that organization for years will
know its way cool no its mandate
you know the challenges it faces who
knows what exactly needs to be done in
order to get the best results that
reflect programs and strategies in a
nutshell that's all I can say but I'll
be interested to know what you feel
about this short video
okay i want to give you a step-by-step
way of developing a handbook because
quite frankly I've never developed it
but like I said I've read quite a number
of handbooks and I know what goes into
you know developing these handbooks so
this has been a short video and really I
hope you now know the meaning of the
monitoring and evaluation handbook of in
your host coach Alexander and see
you on the other side