Handbook for monitoring and evaluating for results

Chapter 8 presents practical steps and examples in using knowledge from monitoring and evaluation in managing for development results. This Handbook is not designed to be read cover-to-cover. It is intended to be use as a reference throughout the programme cycle. The Handbook is about planning, monitoring and evaluating results. It is not a Handbook on programme or project management.

Some of the topics that would normally be covered in a programme and project management manual will therefore not be addressed in this Handbook, such as cost-benefit analyses, environmental impact assessments, technical appraisals and so forth.

For these topics, the POPP should be consulted. In addition, the following compendiums should accompany this Handbook to enhance understanding of pertinent topics:. The compendiums are available on the Evaluation Office website at www. Available online at www. This includes country offices, regional bureaux, regional centres, Bureau for Development Policy BDP , Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery BCPR , Partnership Bureau, and others that have programmatic responsibilities for development initiatives programmes, projects and activities.

Millennium Development Goals. What We Do. Chapter 1:Planning, monitoring and evaluation for development results 1. Chapter 2: Planning for results: Practical applications 2. They can help clarify underlying factors, reveal unexpected consequences, recommend actions to improve performance and generate lessons learned.

They may take place at different times in a programme cycle. It is important to learn what works in terms of outcome relevance, partnership strategy, output design and indicators, and to feed this back into ongoing and future work.

Evaluations should be seen as part of an exercise allowing stakeholders to participate in generating and applying knowledge. Staff should record and share lessons learned with others, using evaluations as an opportunity to bring development partners together and spread learning beyond UNDP.

To maximise learning, country offices should plan and organise evaluations so that they cover the most crucial outcomes, are timely and generate sufficient information on lessons learned. Global Policy Brief No.

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