How to monitor and evaluate IPA CARE
What, how much, why and how are key questions in the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of IPA CARE. The M&E framework is both a system for learning and a tool for ensuring that the Programme makes intended progress.
The M&E framework for the IPA CARE Programme serves the purpose of continuous learning to make the programme adaptable throughout the Programme period. Moreover, the framework promotes accountability and supports communication and takes an integrated and participatory approach.
Integrating the M&E in the programme management and implementation means that planning, monitoring and evaluation are designed to be cyclical, where one feeds into the other. This is an approach that together with the evaluation tools and methods build a basis for assessing and steering change and choice throughout the Programme in addition to the evaluation of final outcomes.
The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is the foundation for the programme’s M&E system. LFA seeks to answer the questions what happened and to what extent it happened. In other words, it tracks results and measures indicators and related targets that are important for the programme’s expected outputs and outcomes.
To fully understand the capacity development taking place, the questions of how and why change happen also need to be answered. To do this the programme engages in periodic and systematic reflections.
A M&E advisor cooperates closely with the management team but it is a responsibility of all participants to contribute to the M&E.
The full IPA CARE Monitoring and Evaluation framework, PDF
