Programme Planning, Implementation and Evalution

PROGRAMME PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION 2(1+1)

Lesson 21 : Monitoring and Evaluation of Extension Programmes

Monitoring

Monitoring simply means to keep a watch on what is happening. The word “monitor” is derived from the latin word meaning to “warn”. The monitoring can be understood in following ways:

Monitoring of Sugarcane Planter at Farmer’s Field

• Monitoring is referred to as a systematic and routine gathering of data, observation and documentation of the progress of programme implementation based on the programme plan (Fig. 21.1).
• Essentially monitoring deals with comparing actual accomplishments with planned targets and provides prompt information about the status of the programmes.
• This helps to make an assessment and take timely decisions in corporate corrections to keep implementation on the right direction.
• Monitoring is a continuous or periodic review by management at every level of the hierarchy of the implementation of an activity to ensure that input deliveries, work schedules, targeted outputs and other required actions are going according to the plan.


Inspection of the Village Information
Centre in construction by the Engineer

• The basic objective of monitoring is to keep all concerned with the programme activities as planned and if there is any deviation then correct it timely. In other words, monitoring can be described as a regular observation and recording of activities taking place in a programme and helps to keep a check on how programme activities are going on.
• Monitoring also involves giving feedback about the progress of an ongoing programme to the beneficiaries and implementers.

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