TOPIC PAPER 5: Monitoring and Evaluation

Dindo Campilan, Pay Drechsel and Daniel Jöcker

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

The terms Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are often used in a broader sense than what is known from project work. Half of the resource papers for the workshop presented 'M&E experiences' that consisted of surveys and analyses of biophysical, socio-economic or institutional urban agricultural issues without specific reference to any project or policy intervention. In the strict sense, this kind of "M&E" would be better classified as Situation Analysis and Diagnosis (see the NRI paper). Nonetheless, this topic paper considers that repeated situation analyses also contribute to project M&E. While there is already a well-established body of general literature on M&E in agricultural research and development (R&D), most of the reported experiences are based on the rural setting. Here differences and appropriate methodsare discussed.