1. Why do we do Monitoring and Evaluation? Is it simply to please our donors?

2. Donor-Grantee relationships

3. Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating programmes for orphans and vulnerable children at the community level CINDI PMER workshop 12-14 March, 2007

5. If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to know when you get there? -Yogi Berra

6. Who are we really trying to serve by conducting M & E? Children are our key stakeholders, so our Monitoring and Evaluation should ultimately serve their needs. Otherwise we are just paying lip service to please our donors.

7. KEY PRIMARY QUESTIONS THAT M&E ANSWERS Are we doing the right things to best serve the children in our communities? Are we doing them right? Are we being effective in what we do? Do we have the right focus to have the intended impact? Should we increase/decrease our target group?

8. Purposes of M&E Learning and Program Improvement Reporting/ Accountability Reporting/ Accountability Share Data with Partners Share Data with Partners

9. Putting LEARNING Into M & E Learning is, or should be, the main reason why a project or organization monitors its work or does an evaluation.

10. Purpose of Learning:  To make changes where necessary  To identify and build on strengths where they exist  To understand, and to make conscious, assumptions  To avoid stagnation

11. Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop: Mwana Project Partners Maputo, Mozambique 21-23 February Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop: Mwana Project Partners Maputo, Mozambique 21-23 February

12. Workshop Goal To encourage Mwana partners to incorporate monitoring and evaluation into their planning processes.

13. Workshop Objectives:  Have an understanding of the importance of Monitoring and Evaluation as part of program planning.  Apply Monitoring and Evaluation to their program planning processes.  Understand the benefits of Monitoring and Evaluation to their programs and projects and view Monitoring and Evaluation as a key to overall success, rather than seeing it as a scary and daunting process. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

14. Challenges  Mozambique is a poor country, with few resources, and developing infrastructure  Language  Knowledge and experience is limited  Communication is difficult particularly with areas outside of Maputo

15. Overcoming the challenges  Used basic and easy to understand language (little or no M & E lingo)  Included a variety of stakeholders: activists, coordinators, administrative staff, upper-level management  Used hands-on, practical exercises and group work that incorporated actual programs and projects of the partners involved  Repetition of concepts and more difficult subject matter, using real life examples

16. Useful Resources Olive Publications: On Program Planning for Development and Monitoring and Evaluation CIVICUS Toolkits: On Planning, Action Planning, and Monitoring and Evaluation. At www.civicus.orgwww.civicus.org