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Introducing the M&E Guide

This Section is Useful for:

Managers > all those contributing to project M&E (managers, M&E staff, consultants, IFAD/cooperating institution staff). It familiarises them with the Guide's main ideas and what the Guide can offer them.

M&E staff >

Consultants >

IFAD and Cooperating Institution Staff >

Table of Contents Section 1 - Introducing the M&E Guide

 

 

Key Messages

  • This Guide has been written to help project managers and M&E staff improve the quality of M&E in IFAD-supported projects.
  • The Guide focuses on how M&E can support project management and engage project stakeholders in understanding project progress, learning from achievements and problems, and agreeing on how to improve both strategy and operations.
  • The main functions of M&E are: ensuring improvement-oriented critical reflection, learning to maximise the impact of rural development projects, and showing this impact to be accountable.
 
  • The Guide is meant to improve M&E in IFAD-supported projects, as a study found that most projects have a fairly low standard of M&E.
  • The Guide provides comprehensive advice on how to set up and implement an M&E system, plus background ideas that underpin the suggestions.

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