Mehrota, Amitabh2025-05-152025-05-150000http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/740This section defines monitoring as the systematic gathering, processing, and communication of implementation data to guide management decisions. It outlines monitoring objectives, steps (environment setting, standards, measuring, review, reporting, action), and tools like observation, meetings, and site visits. Evaluation is distinguished as a more in‑depth, criteria‑based assessment of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. Participatory evaluation emphasizes stakeholder control and learning, illustrated by case studies of NGOs like SSK, Shakti Shalini, and CSVS.Monitoring is a continuous/periodic review and surveillance by at every level of the implementation of an activity to ensure deliveries, work schedules, targeted outputs and other required proceeding according to plan. management that input actions are 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.enMonitoringManagement Information SystemParticipatory EvaluationOrganizational LearningCase StudiesBooklet