Despite Monitoring being almost a daily activity for M&E staff in the development sector, most M&E trainings, print publications and online resources deal primarily with Evaluation. Why? Is there nothing to learn about monitoring? Is it so easy?
Granted, many terms and concepts (e.g. theory of change, indicators), and questions (How to get a representative sample? How to visualize data? Are my indicators SMART?) are relevant to both Monitoring and Evaluation. That is because Evaluation and Monitoring have much in common and essentially work towards the same goal: Finding…