Monitoring Change and Lessons Learned

Guidelines Step 14

Toolkit Step 14

As part your MIW project, it is important to decide how to monitor and evaluate your results. Monitoring means keeping track of what is being done and achieved. Evaluation means assessing whether something has been successful, and what its strengths and weaknesses have been.

Indicators are ways to measure how successful something has been. They can be:

• Quantitative – meaning that they are about numbers. For example: “The number of reports distributed.”
  
• Qualitative – meaning that they are about feelings and emotions. For example: “Positive feedback received about the report.”

To monitor and evaluate a documentation and communication product, take the following steps:

• Reviewing the aim, objective and audiences of their plan.
  
• Identifying indicators to know if their plan is working.
  
• Deciding how to collect information to measure their indicators.
  
• Document the results of your work. This might be qualitative or quantitative in nature.

The MIW Team encourages all project leaders and Steering Committees to monitor your advocacy campaign and evaluate your results to be sure you achieve the goals you intend. 

When running your MIW project, you want to make sure you left out nothing, which would brings about it success. With that in mind, you can not leave out a very important aspect which is monitoring and evaluating the MIW project. We encourage DPOs to always monitor their campaign and evaluate their MIW project to ensure it runs smoothly.

The following information will assist you with this process for your MIW project as a whole:

• What is Monitoring and Evaluation?
• Documenting lessons learned
• Additional Monitoring and Evaluation resources:
  
  
  • Guide to learning M and E
    
  • Improving impact evaluation
    
  • Integrating disability into M + E
    
    

Evaluating your Advocacy Activities (Phase 2)

• Evaluating advocacy efforts
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation template