Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring - Observation
Please download the introductory text for the third phase and read it carefully before proceeding.
After the project team had used "movie" to write the new project application, a new question arises: "How do we keep an overview of all of this?" The team decides to incorporate monitoring as a routine activity within the project. One project worker is given the task of implementing the following guideline: "Monitoring is the observation of connections between the project's own actions, the key actors we are working with, and the overall context."
Frage: He compiles a list of what needs to be monitored and suggests the team meetings as an opportunity for a round of reflection. Extra time will need to be planned in for the exchange of observations. a) What key actor has reached which milestone, or even progressed further? Which key actors are developing in a different direction? How can we tell these things are happening and what led to these developments? b) What is changing in the wider project surroundings? What might have either a positive or negative influence on the change process? c) Can we observe any undesired effects of the project's own activities? What led to these undesired effects? This is too much for the project workers. Which of the above questions are absolutely necessary for the monitoring?
- When it comes down to it, only a), since the key actors are the decisive factor.
- All of them, otherwise it's not possible to keep an overview. The team has to find this much time for the monitoring.
- With the questions in a) and c) the team can keep an eye on what the project itself is doing. The questions in b) are not as important because the project team can't influence those things anyway.
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