[Wigsat-l] Eldis Manuals and Toolkits Reporter

[Sophia Huyer]

Eldis Manuals and Toolkits Reporter
05 February 2009
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/manuals-and-toolkits

This is our regular bulletin that highlights recent manuals and  
toolkits for development practitioners.
The documents are available without charge on the web. If you are  
unable to access any of these materials online and would like to  
receive a copy of a document as an email attachment, please contact  
our editor at the email address given below.

A CDROM with collections of documents from Eldis is also available to  
users with poor internet access. See details in the footer of this  
reporter.

The next reporter will focus on gender. We would like your suggestions  
of manuals and toolkits that could be featured, please email Emilie  
Wilson with your suggestions.

In this issue: Monitoring and Evaluation
Manuals and Toolkits:
Toolkit - result based project monitoring and evaluation: using the  
logical framework
Monitoring and evaluation systems strengthening tool
The practitioners' guide to the Household Economy Approach
Participatory water monitoring: a guide for preventing and managing  
conflict
Vacanices:
THET seeks Consultant to Undertake an End of Programme Evaluation
Khanya-aicdd seeks Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
Community site:
Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation Group
Manuals and Toolkits:
Toolkit - result based project monitoring and evaluation: using the  
logical framework

Authors: Spreckley,F.; Hunt,S.
Produced by: Local Livelihoods (2007)

This toolkit provides an outline for the monitoring and evaluation of  
development projects and programmes.It uses a Result Based Management,  
Monitoring and Evaluation system focussing on the higher level  
objectives/outputs and not the lower level activities. This approach  
uses the Logical Framework as the basis for the project design, the  
monitoring indicators and the assumption and risk analysis.

Ten generic templates are provided intended to assist in the design of  
an monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. The author suggests that  
using templates provide a standard method that sets the agenda and  
enables people to engage in the monitoring process even if they have  
not been involved in monitoring before.The templates provided include:
Strategy and Project Link
Problems, Opportunities and Project Objectives.
Stakeholder Analysis
Partnership Roles, Tasks and Responsibilities.
Logical Framework Monitoring
Activity Plan
Project Management and Reporting
Project Impact
Mainstreaming
Institutional Capacity Assessment - SWOT
These templates can be used to set targets, test actual results  
against those targets, analyse any variance between planned and  
actual, assess the wider context in which projects operate and  
indicate any necessary actions to keep the project on track and guide  
project management to a successful conclusion.

Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/? 
doc=41825&em=050209⊂=man

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Monitoring and evaluation systems strengthening tool

Authors: Tran Ba Huy,R.; Hardee,K.; Win Brown,J.
Produced by: MEASURE Evaluation (2007)

National governments and donors are working to fight many diseases,  
including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and to make improvements  
in a number of health areas. As national programmes and associated  
projects to support these programmes grow, accountability for funding  
and results reported is becoming increasingly important. This  
publication provides an monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems  
strengthening tool which can help all reporting entities under  
government programmes and donor projects to assess the strengths and  
weaknesses of their M&E systems, including data collection and  
reporting, and highlighting areas for improvement that might require  
additional focus, funds and/or technical assistance.

This tool comprises three complementary checklists designed to  
comprehensively assess both the programme and projects' abilities to  
collect, analyze, use and report accurate, valuable and high-quality  
M&E data. Each checklist contains a list of questions t o perform the  
diagnosis, and a template for developing a costed action plan for  
strengthening M&E systems. They are contained in Microsoft Excel  
spreadsheets, which include instructions on how to complete them and  
which stakeholders should be involved. The following checklists are  
provided:

assessing the M&E plan: This Checklist looks at the goals and  
objectives of Programs and projects and how they relate to a country's  
national strategy and M&E Plan, if they exist
assessing data management capacities of the program/projects'  
management units: This Checklist assesses the data management systems  
of the management units of national Programs or donor funded projects
assessing data reporting systems per program area: This Checklist  
assesses the strengths of Programs' and projects' data-collection and  
reporting systems per Program area, including the ability to report  
valid, accurate, and high-q u ality data related to implementation




Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/? 
doc=41582&em=050209⊂=man

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The practitioners' guide to the Household Economy Approach

Produced by: International Save the Children Alliance (2008)

The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework  
for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to  
survive and prosper. It helps determine people's food and non-food  
needs and identify appropriate means of assistance, whether short-term  
emergency assistance or longer term development programmes or policy  
changes.

This guide provides practical 'how to' tools for those involved in the  
fieldwork and analysis of Household Economy Approach (HEA)  
assessments. It aims to also be a useful refresher for experienced  
practitioners. The guide is presented as a series of seven chapters,  
each of which is a self-contained module specific to a particular  
aspect of HEA. These include;

livelihood zoning: this may be defined as the sum of ways in which  
households obtain the things necessary for life, both in good years  
and in bad
baseline assessment: in practical field assessment work, the best way  
to guarante e an acceptable degree of accuracy in terms of information  
collection is to have good interview techniques and mechanisms for  
cross-checking
outcome analysis: this term is used to describe the final three steps  
in HEA analysis. These steps are designed to produce a rational and  
defensible statement about the predicted effects of a hazard(s), or  
positive change (s) on household livelihood strategies
translating outcomes into action: this chapter aims to help the  
practitioner understand important principles and approaches used to  
translate HEA outcomes into effective action, exploring first how HEA  
outcomes have been used in a wide range of settings, and second  
discussing the best approaches for communicating results to decision  
makers
adaptations of HEA: The household economy analytical framework can be  
used in a wide variety of different settings, making it both a  
consistent and a flexible tool. In recent years the approach has been  
used to assess both rural and urban populations, pastoral, agro- 
pastoral and crop dependent groups and refugees and the displaced
emerging links, issues and approaches: the subject of food security  
and livelihoods is broad and widely related to a number of issues and  
approaches. HEA is a particular approach for exploring the  
relationship between households and how they obtain the things they  
need to survive.


Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/? 
doc=40486&em=050209⊂=man

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Participatory water monitoring: a guide for preventing and managing  
conflict

Produced by: The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (2008)

Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the  
public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that  
is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become  
an essential instrument for generating trust. Participatory water  
monitoring has an especially important role to play in reducing or  
avoiding water-related conflict in large-scale, intensive development  
projects. This guide is designed to be used as a tool for communities,  
civil society organisations, corporations, and governments at both the  
sub-national and national level to implement participatory water  
monitoring programmes.

The guide provides a framework including questions and steps that can  
be used to develop a detailed implementation plan. Topics covered  
include discussion of the need for participatory monitoring and a  
description of the four components of an effective participatory  
monitoring programmes:

initiating the monitoring prog ramme
creating meaningful participation, effective governance, and  
transparent financing
creating credible information
evaluating the process and results.
Appendices provide case studies, sampling methods, procedures,tools  
and resources to address the social and technical details of the  
planning and implementation process.



Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/? 
doc=39974&em=050209⊂=man
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