Monitoring and Evaluation for HES Activities
Course Objectives
By the end of the training, you will be able to…
 Name several key objectives for HES activities
 Define ‘household livelihood assessment’ and describe how it is
part of the M&E process
 Evaluate M&E tools and indicators based on their utility,
feasibility and reliability
 Analyze a results framework to understand how HES objectives
are linked to intermediate results and indicators
 Apply ‘lessons learned’ to develop an M&E plan
 Identify uses of several M&E tools and resources
 Access a range of M&E tools and resources
The M&E Process
Regional / National
Communities
Households
Vulnerable Children
Broad M&E Objectives
1.
Providing program planners and implementers with information
to select HES activities
2.
Knowing what and how households and VC are doing
3.
Giving managers insight into whether HES activities are meeting
targets
4.
Being accountable to stakeholders
5.
Providing ‘data for decision-making’
Broad M&E Objectives
Providing program planners and
implementers with information to
select HES activities
Identify appropriate target households for
participation and allocate resources
accordingly.
Knowing what and how
households and VC are doing
Allows program staff to see past numbers
and percentages to understand the role a
program has in helping human beings.
Giving managers insight into
whether HES activities are
meeting household needs
Helps them move toward achieving longterm livelihood and food security
objectives.
Providing ‘data for decisionmaking,’
Allows managers to base program decisions
and changes on accurate information
rather than on ‘hunches’.
Being accountable to stakeholders Includes beneficiary communities,
implementing partners and funding
agencies.
1. Providing program planners and implementers with
information to select HES activities
Household Livelihoods Assessment
A livelihood is the combination of the resources used and the
activities undertaken in order to ensure day-to-day and long-term
survival.
Examples of livelihood activities people undertake to provide food for
themselves:
• Working to earn income
• Bartering owned assets for food
• Growing / raising food
• Sending children to eat with neighbors
• Receiving government food assistance, etc.
1. Providing program planners and implementers with
information to select HES activities con’t.
Household Livelihoods Assessment
 Develop a holistic understanding of household and community
livelihoods and well-being, economic conditions, health, food
security, political and environmental security, etc.
 Determine household and community needs and designing
interventions to meet them
 Examine intra-household poverty and how it affects VCs and
other household members differently
 Understand local opportunities and capabilities
 Establish a baseline or reference point from which to identify and
measure changes (positive and negative) in the future.
1. Providing program planners and implementers with
information to select HES activities con’t.
Household Livelihoods Assessment
Examples of Tools – Page 14
2. Knowing what and how households and VC are doing
3. Giving managers insight into whether HES activities are meeting
targets
• Are households improving? Do households feel like
they’re better off?
4. Being accountable to stakeholders
•
If HHs are improving and targets are being met, can we assume
the chosen approach is working?
• If HHs are not improving is it because targets aren’t being met
or is it in spite of the fact that they are being met?
• Different sets of priorities; everyone accountable to
someone else
5. Provide Data for Decision-Making
• Timely information
• Accessible to needed staff / stakeholders
• Integrated into program cycle – data available when
adjustments can be made.
KEY QUESTION: When we get this information, what will we do with it?
Example of Result Framework
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Activity
Match the indicators to the IRs!
Reading a PML-3
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5
FHI-360-LIFT
Selecting Tools, Indicators
Reliability
• The extent to which one can reasonably assume they can acquire
correct or accurate information.
• A tool that includes questions that interviewers or respondents
may interpret differently may not be reliable.
Feasibility
• The extent to which the information needed can be readily
acquired.
• It requires that you be able to access the source of information as
well as the specific data you need as often as you need it.
Utility
• The extent to which the information is actually useful.
• How much will what we learn help us to make or adjust
programmatic or strategic decisions?