Monitoring, Evaluation, and LFA Flashcards
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Main steps in LFA
What are the main steps in LFA?
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- Situational Analysis | “What is”
- Problem Strategy Analysis | “What should be”
- Project Planning | “How to achieve”
- Implementation Plan | “Fill the gaps”
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Process of Monitoring and Evaluation
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Differentiate Monitoring from Evaluation
- It is the routine checking of information on progress, and to confirm that the progress is occurring against the defined direction.
- Used to ensure that what has been planned is going forward as intended and within the resources allocated.
- PURPOSE: To track implementation progress through periodic data collection.
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Monitoring
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Differentiate Monitoring from Evaluation
- Used to ensure that the direction chosen is correct whereby the correct combination of strategies and resources are utilized to get there.
- It can be formative or summative that focuses on the outcomes and their relationship with the outputs.
- PURPOSE: Determine the effectiveness of a specific program or model and understand why a program may or may not be working.
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Evaluation
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Identify and understand the parts of a Logical Framework Analysis
- Overall Objectives
- Describes the anticipated long-term objective towards which the project will contribute.
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Goal
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Identify and understand the parts of a Logical Framework Analysis
- Specific Objective
- Describes the intended effects of the project
- The immediate objective for the direct beneficiaries as a precisely stated future condition.
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Purpose
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Identify and understand the parts of a Logical Framework Analysis
- Expressed as the targets which the project management must achieve and sustain.
- They are to be expressed in terms of a tangible result ‘delivered/produced/ conducted etc.
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Results or Outputs
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Identify and understand the parts of a Logical Framework Analysis
- How the team will carry out the project
- Expressed as processes, in the present tense starting with an active verb.
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Activities