2025-04-172025-04-170000http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/431Community Based Monitoring (CBM) is a participatory process that empowers community members to monitor, evaluate, and influence development activities affecting them. It shifts monitoring power from top-down surveillance to grassroots-level data collection and decision-making. CBM promotes transparency, relevance, efficiency, and accountability in development by using locally appropriate indicators. Ultimately, it helps communities take control of their own development and ensures that interventions align with their real needs.Community Based Monitoring (CBM) is a tool for learning from experience from success and failure. It helps every one to learn, and it helps everyone plan better next time, or improve upon existing ways of doing things. It is above all, a system developed primarily for use by the community members. CBM is a process by which the community members gather and generate data to monitor progress of development processes, and through which they educate themselves and others to increase control over their own destiny.enMonitoring IndicatorsCommunity OwnershipReporting and PresentationTransparency and TrustParticipatory EvaluationArticle