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Monitoring and Evaluation
(0000) Mehrota, Amitabh
Monitoring is a continuous/periodic review and surveillance by management: at every level of the implementation of an activity to ensure that input deliveries, work schedules, targeted outputs and other required actions are proceeding according to plan. Monitoring can also be defined as a process of measuring, recording, collecting, processing and communicating information to assist management decision making. To be precise and brief, monitoring system is an information system for management decision making. The monitoring of programme implementation is an activity that is undertaken at many different points in the development of programmes and in the management of enacted programmes. Programme monitoring is particularly vital to development process, when programmes are tested and refined. Programme designers need to know what problems are encountered in implementation so that changes may be made in programme design to overcome such obstacles. No matter how well planned an innovative programme may be unexpected results and unwanted side effects often rapidly surface in the course of early implementation.