International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

Abstract

This study is carried out to determine factors affecting monitoring and evaluation of community based projects. Is important that the projects based in the community to be aware of these factors and put them into consideration right from project implementation so as to ensure the purpose of monitoring and evaluation is effectively achieved.

The first section of this paper focuses on the understanding of monitoring and evaluation. Monitoring and evaluation of community based projects is affected by factors such as; lack of and understanding of the importance of monitoring and evaluation, poor  skills on results-based monitoring and evaluation, the purposes of evaluation, the actual monitoring and evaluation process and objectives of monitoring and evaluation.  Without a proper understanding of monitoring and evaluation, this can affect the process hence achieving inefficient results. The second section is about the importance of partnership and how they contribute to M&E strategy implementation of community based projects. Stakeholders’ analysis is also discussed in this section. Field visits is discussed in section three as it determines the effectiveness of M&E. Budgeting is very key in M&E, this is looked into in details in section four. Types of M&E within a program can also determine the effectiveness of strategy implementation and is analyzed in section five. If M&E results are not properly communicated, they can affect the effectiveness of M&E of strategy implementation of community based projects. This is looked into in section six of this paper.  The study is limited to the identification of the determinants of effective M&E of community based projects. Desk research is the methodology that was used in carrying out this study.

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